Re: Converting disk images to floppies....

[madharry@cdc.net (Mad Harry)]

On Mon, 04 Jan 1999 02:32:52 -0600, Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>
wrote:

>

>     You could email some regular poster and request a few startup
>diskettes. This would get you bootable DOS and ProDOS diskettes with
>copy utilities (e.g. Copy II Plus), "ShrinkIt", a filetype changer util,
>and an Apple II telecom utility (e.g. ZLink) to handle file transfers
>from your PC or Mac to your Apple II. Probably, the cost will be $3-$5
>to cover postage and materials.
>
>     A IIgs with at least one 3.5" drive and one 5.25" drive running
>ProDOS 8 is plenty of computer for handling the transfers and doing .dsk
>--> diskette conversions.
>
>

  I'll see about getting what we'll need to interconnect one the Macs
and the IIgs for transferring.  Fortunately, my IIe is new enough that
it has a daisy chainable 5.25", so doing the conversion on the IIgs
should not be a problem.  It'll only be a problem if I can't find a
way to interconnect the two machines.  I'll have to do some research
into AppleTalk on the IIgs for the moment.  Later, I'll need to find a
way to do it on a Mac Classic, as my brother has told me that with a
system 6 or system 7 boot disk (it doesn't have a HD at the moment,
I'll try to change that.) I could just use it for the manipulations.
I'm not sure how happy the Mac will be about writing stuff out to the
5.25", though.