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Re: Apple IIGS PC disk access idea....
- Subject: Re: Apple IIGS PC disk access idea....
- From: "Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net>
- Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 17:20:06 GMT
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Silicon Valley North (http://www.svn.net)
- References: <8p3vav$5pi$1@slb6.atl.mindspring.net> <B5DAD472.AE65%sheppy@sheppyware.net>
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Eric Shepherd <sheppy@sheppyware.net> wrote
>
> System 6.0.1 has the ability to read MS-DOS disks, but not to write them.
> You do, of course, have to have a SuperDrive or other drive capable of
> handling 720K or 1440K floppy disks.
>
SuperDrives are easy to come by (scrounge one from a Mac LC or similar) it's
the SuperDrive controller for the IIgs that's very hard to find. The most
expedient approach would be to pick up a compact Mac with a SuperDrive (SE
FDHD, SE/30, Classic, Classic II, Color Classic) and use that to transfer
stuff from MS-DOS disks to 800K ProDos disks, then to your IIgs.
-Paul