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

[drsmooth@relex.com (Edhel Iaur, Esq.)]

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 anyone direct me to some software I might use
>to connect such a drive to a contemporary Mac ?

Unless you can use Apple's //e emulation card, the //e disk drive
won't work on the Mac.

>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".

>What about getting some communications software and just 
>dailing out to a modern computer ? 

You can do it that way, too.
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