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Re: apple-compatible 3.5 or 5.25 USB drives
- Subject: Re: apple-compatible 3.5 or 5.25 USB drives
- From: schmidtd <schmidtd@my-deja.com>
- Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 12:57:42 -0800 (PST)
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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.
There's this, under development:
http://www.willegal.net/appleii/appleii-first_page.htm
and this, which is available:
http://www.deviceside.com/fc5025.html
but no one-piece device you can buy and plug into a modern computer.
A normal 3.5" USB floppy would work on a 720M DOS disk, but not on an
800k ProDOS/MFS disk.