Re: apple-compatible 3.5 or 5.25 USB drives

[schmidtd <schmidtd@my-deja.com>]

On Dec 7, 3:57 pm, schmidtd <schmi...@my-deja.com> wrote:
> On Dec 7, 3:10 pm, Robert Rodriguez <rjrod...@nyx.net> wrote:
>
> > Are there any USB PC or Mac-compatible drives that will read either the
> > 5.25 Apple format or the old 3.5 720Meg DOS disks that were used on the Apple
> > iie PC Transporter hardware? I'm looking for a quick way to transfer some
> > of the old Apple and DOS games I have to an apple iie or  
> > gs emulator. I still have the original Apple, but the monitor was damaged
> > when moving.

Please allow me to correct some of the errors I posted earlier:

> There's this, under development:
http://www.willegal.net/appleii/appleii-disk-int.htm
(#!$%&@! HTML frames)

> but no one-piece device you can buy and plug into a modern computer.
> A normal 3.5" USB floppy would work on a 720k DOS disk, but not on an
> 800k ProDOS/MFS disk.

And of course we're all talking about kilobytes here, not
megabytes. :-)  You should be able to plug that Apple into absolutely
any composite display device... I have a DVD in-the-car player that
serves as an excellent monitor in a pinch.  Then you could use ADTPro
to copy the disks over yourself.