Re: How to read old Apple floppies on Mac?

[MP <spam@dodo.net>]

The old 5.25 Apple external floppy drive can read the files or you can 
use a Dayna file. In both instances the files are generic as long as 
they were done in an Apple II wordprocessor. If they were done in CPM 
using Wordstar, you have additional problems. I've done this type of 
service for years. Its no big deal if you have the right hardware & 
software and of course know what you are doing.

My address is pmanny@home,com

In article <3b3e0d90.1791848@newsflash.concordia.ca>,
 a_specto@alcor.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector) wrote:

> On Fri, 29 Jun 2001 17:23:23 GMT, MP <spam@dodo.net> wrote:
> 
> >> On Thu, 24 May 2001 17:23:42 GMT, Ted Shoemaker wrote:
> >>
> >> > My parents had either an Apple ][e or ][+ (sorry, I forget which).
> >> > On that machine, they generated a lot of files,
> >> > which are saved on 5 1/4 inch floppies.
> >> > Is there a way to read those files now?
> >> >
> >> > (I don't care whether the new machine reading it is a Mac or PC;
> >> > whether the operating system is Mac, Windows, Linux, BeOS, or DOS.
> >> > Can someone tell me how to do this?)
> >> >
> >> > Note:  Someone might, "Just print the files out, and then scan the paper
> >> > copy." But since the Apple's printer in a dot-matrix, that solution 
> >> > doesn't
> >> > work.
> >
> >There is a much better way. Find somebody who has a 5.25 " mac/apple 
> >floppy drive.
> 
>     If your referring to the 'Apple PC 5.25' floppy drive (that worked
> with only the Macintosh II and SE) it would be of no use as it only
> supported 360K/MFM and Apple II disks were 140K/GCR. Aside
> from a quite rare ISA controller card for PC's and the A1020 drive
> for the Amiga series, you cannot access these disks.
> 
>     An Apple IIgs makes an ideal solution for transferring files over.
> Typically these machines came with a 3.5 and 5.25 GCR floppy,
> and IIgs System Software 6.0 and up supported writting to 800K
> HFS disks which most older Macintosh machines can access.
> 
>     My own Apple IIgs has a 1.44 MB drive which lets me directly
> write to MS-DOS floppy disks. I often transfer data between my
> Apple IIgs and Pentium III this way. A null-modem transfer will
> also work, or IOmega Zip carts if you have a SCSI interface.
> 
> Mitchell Spector
> a_specto@alcor.concordia.ca
> 
>