Re: IIe -> mac data transfer

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Quartz wrote:

>> You might just ask in this newsgroup...if anyone would copy
>> the disks for you and send you a CD of the information. I
>> bet you could find someone to do it...easier than you can
>> fix your friend's setup to transfer the files.
>
>eh heh heh.... :)
>
>unless you guys are sadists, I'm pretty sure that's not an option. I 
>have about 12-15 boxes of disks with around 10-15 disks in each... 
>granted, a lot of these are probably blank or program disks, but still.
>
>besides, I don't know what sort of personal stuff he has on these, so I 
>dont' feel comfortable tossing them around.

It is _extremely_ unlikely that more than a dozen of those disks
contain any original writing.

Apple 5.25" disks were small by today's standards, but each
could hold at least 120KB of user data, which is about 50-60
pages.  So ten of them is 500-600 pages of text--quite a lot of
human output.

I'm sure they are labeled in a coherent way (this guy clearly
was a dedicated user), and a little study will reveal which
few disks are the important (to an author) ones.  The vast
majority are probably programs and backups of programs
and data.

-michael

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