Re: Can I read low density Apple disks on a PC?

[tonyoc@accutek.com (Tony Ochoa)]

In article <834919513.17580.0@chuche.demon.co.uk>, john@chuche.demon.co.uk
(John Hay) wrote:

> Help!
> 
> I have my dissertation on 5 1/4" low density Apple II disks and the
> machine has died.
> 
> Can anybody point me to a software application to let me read them on
> a PC?
> 
> John Hay (john@chuche.demon.co.uk)

John, 

Since I believe time is of the essence here (am I right?) get to the
nearest Mac user group. They can transfer the disks over to a single-side
3 1/2" disls, insert those in a Mac using PC Exchange or Apple File
Exchange, copy the files to the hard drive and then to DOS floppies.  For
the nearest Mac user group in your area, got to Yahoo (
http://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Personal_Computers/Macintosh/User_Groups/
) . 

I am _not_ familiar with the options for converting the Apple ][ files to
text, but the user group should know; I remember a posting on the
Evangelist ( http://wais.sensei.com.au/searchform.html  ) of someone doing
this exact procedure with success. 

hth, 

Tony
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