Re: Transfer from 2e diskette to PC

[carbide@egine.com]

Thumper wrote:
> We sold our Apple ][e at a garage sale 10 years ago. But I kept our
> diskettes. And now I'd like to find a way to transfer our files to my
> XP machine.
>
> Specifically, we made an animation in Basic. I have read some posts
> about ASCII and modems. Can anyone point me to an article that gives
a
> step-by-step guide. If I buy 2e diskette drive from eBay, can I plug
> that to the serial port on my XP machine? Or can I put those old 2e
> diskettes into my old 5" diskette drive on my Windows 3x machine
> assuming my PC is running one of these Apple emulators?
>
> Sorry if this has been asked a thousand times. I'm just a guy looking
> for a nostalgia. (It was either this, or trying on my old "Be tough
> like me, Mr. T t-shirt.)

Your best bet is to send the disks to someone here and have them
transfer the files and email them to you.

There are no solutions that don't require other hardware than what you
have. As a practical matter you need an Apple II or an old Mac with a
IIe card and a 5 1/4" Apple II floppy drive. 
-Paul