Re: Appleworks files on Apple II as

[gberigan@cse.unl.edu (Greg Berigan)]

"Tom Zuchowski" <tjz@mindspring.com> wrote:
>Jack Friess <jfriess@wctc.net> wrote:

>> As Tom Z. was suggesting/hinting, if you have a IIgs, you can run IIx 
>> software on it.  For your conversion project, the IIgs with both 
>> drives (5.25, 3.5) would be the most efficient.

>I'm curious, why do you believe that a GS is more efficient at copying
>ProDOS files than any other Apple II model?  In every case you're most
>severely limited by disk speed, aren't you?

Probably more an issue of the ease of connecting drives to it, specifically
3.5" drives, as well as being able to write the files to HFS disks or save
them over AppleTalk.

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