Re: Salvaging Apple IIe Documents

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"TopCat" <Len-K@compuserve.com> wrote:

>A good friend of mine owns an Apple IIe and has several disks worth of
>letters and papers that he would like to transfer to either Mac or PC
>formatted disks.  I tried connecting the Apple external 3.5" drive chained
>to the 5.25" to the IIe and then to the IIGS I got at a yard sale, but the
>system software we have (Applewriter and Appleworks ) is apparently too old
>to support 3.5" drives.

First, you can't chain drives like this on a IIe (unless the IIe has a
Universal Disk Controller).

Second, you need to reverse the order on the IIGS.  3.5" connected
to IIGS and 5.25" connected to 3.5" (5.25" last in the chain).  Third,
go to http://www.allelec.com/ Alltech Electronics to buy (for a few
dollars) the System 6.0.1 disks.  OR, you can buy a Focus hard drive
which includes the System software installed.  Next, install and activate
the HFS FST.  Also, make sure to activate the 3.5" drive in the IIGS
control panel.

Finally, format a double density 800k 3.5" disk in Finder GS using
the HFS file system.  Copy the selected files from the 5.25" disk to
the 3.5" HFS disk.  Take the 3.5" HFS disk to Macintosh, where the
Mac will see it (HFS disk = Macintosh disk).

>I tried plugging the 5.25 " drive into a Mac
>Classic running Apple Exchange but it cannot communicate with that drive. 
>Is there a solution, either hardware or software one.
>Thanks in advance!

Macintosh can't use Apple 5.25" disk drives.  If you use GS/OS
and the HFS FST, you should not need AFE.

>I've heard something about a software package called MUGI (?). Could
>someone tell me where I could find it?

It is like PC Exchange for the IIGS and is used to read and write
MS-DOS disks under the GS/OS operating system.  You need
an external SuperDrive (or AMR or AE 1.44MB units) AND a
SuperDrive controller to use it.