Re: Way to read old Apple II 5.25" floppies

[Erick Wagner <wagnere@netcom.com>]

mharm@gizmo.usc.edu (Mike Harm) wrote:

>Our lab has a bunch of old 5.25" Apple II floppies containing
>ascii data.  Sadly, we don't have an Apple II lying around.
>We need to get at the data somehow.
>
>Is there some driver, program or such that will allow a dos machine's
>5.25" drive to read an apple II 5.25 floppy, or is
>there a hardware issue as well?

The best way to deal with this is to find a local Apple II computer user
group or person in your area that could do this for you.

I once converted 50+ DOS 3.3 disks of AppleWriter text files to 800K
ProDOS disks using the Copy II+ program (it was the fastest tool for
the job).

Erick