Re: IIc data xfer to mac

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"Bill McDonough" <ideaguys@mediaone.net> wrote:

>Hi - thanks in advance for your advice.  We have 3,000 library records we 
>need to import from a IIc to a Mac. Any ideas on data transfer (and if you
>do it by modem, how do you transfer from the IIc without using an Internet
>Service  Provider?) or file conversion??  What's this I heard about
>converting to a 3.5 inch floppy on a IIgs - does it use both kinds of disks?
>Thanks!

What format is the records stored in?  Assuming standard ASCII, the
IIGS can read the IIc disks and write the Mac disks.

System 6.0.1 for the IIGS includes ProDOS, Apple DOS 3.3, and
HFS (Mac) FSTs (file system translators), so the IIGS sees all
three formats equally for reading (and ProDOS and HFS equally
for writing).  At the IIGS Finder, just insert the IIc disks into one
drive and the Mac disks into another and copy away!

If you have a Zip drive or a hard drive attached to the IIGS, you can
even copy all the files onto an HFS formatted volume and take the
whole Zip disk or hard disk to the Mac, connect it to the SCSI port
or Zip drive, and read all 3,000 files at once!  Good luck!