Re: Help With Time in a Bottle

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

julian814 wrote:
> Simon D. Williams wrote:
>
> > On 4 Feb 2006, julian814 wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Okay, I saw something that piqued my interest at the local Goodwill
> > > today. It was an old Mac, LC and three numbers I can't remember, that
> > > had both a CD ROM drive and a 3.5" floppy drive. Is it possible I could
> > > use something like this to transfer stuff off of the Time in a Bottle
> > > CD set onto Prodos 3.5" floppies? Would I be able to  use a GS mouse
> > > and keyboard with it, if it does? I certainly wouldn't mind paying $15
> > > bucks to get it if this would work.
> >
> > That's an ideal system to use as an Apple II peripheral. Not only will it
> > read and write Prodos floppies, but you'll also have very little trouble
> > getting it on the internet. If it doesn't already have one, you can add a
> > 10 Mbps ethernet card for a few bucks, or use a printer cable to do
> > LocalTalk to your GS... and your ADB mouse/kb will work with it.
>
>
> Thanks, Simon. All I really need is something that will take the
> software off the Time in a Bottle CDs and transfer them to a media more
> usable for my 8 and 16 bit machines. It'd really be great if I could
> hook my external 5.25" floppy drive to it as well.

You won't be able to do that unless you connect it to an Apple //e
Emulation Card inserted in the PDS of the Mac.

-michael

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