Re: 5.25 floppies to Mac

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

Nathan Mates (nathan@visi.com) wrote:

: >Anyone know how I could transfer 5.25 floppy data created on IIc to
: >my 6100 Mac?  Can I avoid buying an external drive?

:    Better hold on to that //c -- there's no Apple II 5.25" drive
: available for that Mac. [Some rare and oddball Macs could have a //e
: card for them, almost a decade after the //e came out, or about 5
: years after Macs supported external PC 5.25" drives.... Macintosh,
: Inc's priorities are quite clear even though some try to deny that]

:    Also, as Appletalk support was planned for one version of the //c
: then dropped (by Macintosh, Inc, no surprise there), null modem (the
: most reliable and simple way to get files between any 2 platforms) is
: probably going to be one good way to get the files transferred. Or, if
: you can find an Apple II with 3.5" drives (usually a GS), copy files
: to 3.5" disks, and hope that your Mac's 3.5" drive isn't too flakey
: (Macintosh, Inc cheapskated on components and shafted 800K support) to
: support Apple II-written disks.

To the maintainer of the Nathan flame generator: make sure that this shit 
makes it in there so as to save his posting it all the time.
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