Re: How to read old Apple floppies on Mac?

[Paul@pdchem.demon.co.uk (Paul Davis)]

In article <ysbP6.6652$r4.412129@www.newsranger.com>
           nospam@newsranger.com "Ted Shoemaker" writes:

> 
> Hello,
> 
> 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 did this years ago.  Alas I can't remember the details, but
I connected the printer port of the apple ][ to the parallel
port of a PC and used a terminal program on the PC to capture
the ASCII code, saving it to a file.  It was not difficult.

-Paul

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Paul Davis                                   paul@pdchem.demon.co.uk