Re: Apple IIe PC to Disk without serial connection

["Chris Alaimo" <cpalaimo@excite.com>]

> >> Hello.  Is their anyway I can put Apple IIe images on a disk from my PC
> >> without a serial connection?  I have a 5 1/4 drive for my PC? Can this
be
> >> done?
> >
> >I've been told that it can be done if you have a really OOOOLLLD 360k
> >drive. But I'm talking like early 80's or late 70's era drive.
>
> It takes more than just a 5.25" floppy drive...floppy drives on the Apple
II
> used a completely different (and incompatible) recording method, so you
> would need some sort of interface card that supported it.  Good luck
finding
> one of those.
>
> >Why dont you just buy a frickin serial cable, dude?
>
> A serial cable won't do you much good unless a serial card is also
installed
> in the IIe.  Maybe he doesn't have one (which is probable if the computer
> was used with a parallel printer and no modem).
>
> (Three Super Serial Cards are up on eBay right now.  One's even at a
> reasonable price.  You'll still need telecom software to make any use of
it,
> but ProTERM's only $20, last time I checked.)

    So basically it isnt worth it trying to get an old enough 5.25" drive
running on a dos machine, and it's too much of a pain to try to get an SSC,
a serial cable, and a telecom program.  Why doesnt he just chuck his Apple
in the dumpster right now and then put a bullet through his left temple.