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Les Ferch

It can't be done with software alone. There is a card called the
MatchPoint PC card that will let you read and write Apple II DOS,
ProDOS, and CP/M disks on a PC 5.25" 360K drive. We used to have one
installed in an XT here and it worked fine.

The other common way of moving the data is to connect an Apple II to a
PC using a null modem cable and using comm programs such as Kermit to
transfer the data.

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Curt Schroeder

It is not possible for a 5.25" PC floppy drive to read Apple II disks. 
They use incompatible recording technologies.  Your options are to get
your data into an Apple that can write MS-DOS 3.5" disks (Apple IIgs or
Macintosh) or transfer via serial link (either via modem or null-modem
cable).  The other possibility is to use an Apple II equipped with a PC
Transporter and either has a 3.5" drive or 5.25" PC floppy drive(s)
attached.

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Michael Hoffberg

About a year ago, I picked up card for my ibm made by TrackStar.  It is
basically an apple II that sits inside your IBM.  When you enable it, it
can boot off an apple drive, it uses the ibm keyboard and monitor.

When I go home I only use it to play moon patrol (I am too lazy to find
my other games).

In any case, I think that it is possible to transfer files between the
ibm and apple with the card.  I have never tried it though.

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Fred R. Opperdoes

Any Apple II (E or GS) owner having an Applied Engineering PC card is
able to do the job easily. It is maybe not easy to find such a person in
your neighborhood. Another possibility would be that you ask someone
with an Apple IIGS to have your 5 1/4" Dos 3.3 or Prodos disk
transcribed to a 3.5" Prodos disk. Every IIGS owner would be able to do
so. Files on such disks can then easily be converted to MsDOS files on
an MsDOS disk on a Macintosh using the Apple File Exchange Utility that
comes with every modern Mac.

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Leo Connolly

I don't think this is doable.  There are limitations in the PC drive
hardware which make it impossible to read Apple II disks.  (And the same
is true in reverse, for exactly the same reasons).

I suggest the following.

Transfer the Apple II data to a 3.5" disk.  This is easy on a IIGS if
you use a utility such as Copy II Plus.

Use Apple File Convert on a Macintosh to convert the Apple II files to
MS-DOS format.  Caution: older versions of this utility cannot handle
MS-DOS 3.5" disks, but the newer ones can.

Or: send your data through a modem from the Apple to the PC.

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Leonard Erickson

It can't be done without extra hardware. The Apple II didn't use a disk
controller chip, it used an odd circuit instead. So, machines using the
industry standard controller chips can't read Apple disks.

You'll need a COPYIIPC deluxe option board or some such. Check with
Central Point software, they used to sell them.

Another approach is to track down one of the add-on boards that was
essentially an Apple II on a PC card. It hooks to the 5.25" drive and
plugs into the bus. And you've got an Apple II in your PC.

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tomk@crash.cts.com

The cheapest method to get the data would to do a "NULL MODEM" transfer
between the two computers.

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From: Rubywand

008- I'm having a hell of a time tracking down a place to buy
     double density 3-1/2 & 5-1/4 disks. Any suggestions?

     Here are places to try ...

Alltech

     Alltech (760-724-2404) still advertises DS-DD 5.25" disketts for
$15/100 with sleeves + shipping. Their price for DD 3.5" diskettes was
pretty good, too. Alltech has done a major revision of their web page
which seems to omit many favorite items; but, although diskettes are no
longer listed, they still sell them as of a check in February 1999.

     
Thrift shops

     Brian Hammack reports finding packs of used 5.25" diskettes at
bargain prices.
From: Rubywand