Re: Want to convert apple IIe media to Mac or PC

[cheer@i.hate.spam (Christopher D. Heer)]

In article <32d874ed.35252776@167.152.149.11>, drsmooth@relex.com says...

>On 12 Jan 1997 00:57:18 GMT, you@somehost.somedomain (Your Name Here)
>wrote:

>>I want to convert apple IIe media (5.25 inch floppy)
>>to contemporary Mac or PC 1.4? MB floppy.

>>Can I just tell the apple to print and capture the stuff as
>>it's being sent to the printer port ?

>Yep.  That's what I tell AppleWorks; I just have the printer cable
>plugged into a COM port on my PC, and tell a comm program on the PC to
>"Capture Text".

*cough*

Be sure that's a serial printer card!  I realise those were very common later 
on (the Apple Super Serial card and all that) but in the real old days, people 
were still getting parallel cards in their Apples.  Wery wery bad, hooking up 
parallel to serial. . . 
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