Re: Access to Apple II files

[nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates)]

In article <chalk-2004961436010001@chalk.slip.duq.edu>,
Stuart Chalk <chalk@nexus.chemistry.duq.edu> wrote:
>I have a need to get some files on Apple II format 5.25" DS, DD disks onto
>a Macintosh.  Does anyone have information about drives, cables, and Mac
>software that can access the drive.

   The fact that the disks are of the wrong size to fit in a macintosh
should have tipped you off. The shortest and easiest way to get such a
disk into the mac is to fold the 5.25" disk to the right size, and
then use an iron to flatten it out. (This will produce a disk of the
right thickness as well, something which the drives check for.)
Superglue can also be used on the disk to keep it flattened when
folded-- Apple drives just thrive on that. There are several longer
and more complicated ways, but they're all just as useless-- no
hardware has ever been sold to give macs access to Apple II 5.25"
disks.

   Find someone with a real Apple II and then you can start working.
Apple has never been interested in compatability with that which
launched them and funded the development of the mac.

Nathan "BOFH" Mates

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