Re: Old apple II disks (5.25") on a PC

[ar655@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Byron Howat)]

Nathan Mates (nathan@visi.com) writes:
> In article <3225fe53.965390@news>, The Shadow Bug <shadow@www.dma.be> wrote:
>>i was wondering if there is a way to read my old apple II 5.25" disk
>>on my MS-DOS pc. If so, how?
> 
>    Not without (rare) addon hardware. The two write to the disk
> differently at a hardware level, which cannot be overcome via
> software.

Interesting problem; I had an LC575 (Macintosh) with an Apple IIe card,
plus a 5.25 disk drive. With this I could bring in files from the IIe
environment, convert text files (and any spreadsheet and database files
etc) into the Macintosh environment (e.g. into ClarisWorks), then write
these files out again to an IBM-formatted 3.5" floppy....

This may not be practicable, but it is "a way" to do it! Good luck!
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