Re: apple II gs to ms-dos

[lkhaider@concentric.net (Laer Haider)]

Daniel Webster <dwebster@monmouth.com> wrote:

>Jim.Low@logicbbs.org wrote:
>> 
>> There are several ways you can trasfer text files from the Apple IIgs to an
>> IBM compatible "machine."
>> 1.  Connect the two computers via serial/modem ports with a nul modem and
>>     (a) use any communications program between the two,
>>     (b) or get the program CrossWorks to make the job easier.
>> 2.  Have modems on both computers and dial each (two phome lines/two modems)
>> and transfer with most telecommunications programs.
>> 3.  If files are on a ProDOS 3.5" disk, put the disk in a modern Mac then
>> save to an MS-DOS formatted disk.  If the file isn't plain ASCII, you can
>> use MacLink Plus or many modern programs to import, then export to a format
>> you want.
>> 
>> There are other methods, too.
>
>I used to just pop MS-DOS disks into my GS HD drives, but the read only
>DOS FST is not compatable with WIN 95 disks.  Even disks that were
>formatted under DOS 6.22 or earlier, once read by a WIN 95 machine are
>no longer readable by the GS.  Another interesting note, Mac PC exchange
>(the sys 7.5xx version) also has a problem with WIN 95 disks.  It can
>read the files, but the disk lable becomes a fragment of the name of the
>most recently written file.  
>
>I can still use my old Appletalk PC card, but that requires using a MAC
>as an appletalk server.  (it also requires that I pull my sound card
>from my PC!)

I have a Bernoulli Box 150 on my PC and on my Apple IIgs (yes, they're
relatively cheap, used).  Then, on the PC, I format a 150MB cartridge
to a Mac HFS volume using MacOpener, then format it again as a HFS
volume using the Apple Advanced Disk Utility (don't know why I have to
format it twice, but that's the only way it will be recognized on both
machines).  Now I have a 150MB cartridge that can be easily swapped
between an Apple IIgs and a Win95/Pentium box; and it's bigger and
faster than my old 105MB Toshiba SCSI HDD.

I'm not suggesting that this solution is for everyone, but if you have
some SCSI device that you can put on, or swap between, both machines
(like a SCSI Zip drive), it's an ideal solution for moving large
amounts of info.  Now if only someone could create an ethernet card
and Win95 compatible peer networking drivers for the IIgs...