Re: Mac=AppleIIe

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <69e215$23t$1@news.ysu.edu>, Nick McCoy <bv634@yfn.ysu.edu> wrote:
>how would i get the software from my Mac to an Apple IIe disk
>i have a 5.25" drive connected to my Mac and i use PRODOS to run
>it, i wanna know if theres a way to put apple IIe software to mac or
>mac software on an apple IIe 5.25" disk?

   The only way you can connect an Apple II 5.25" disk (Apple made
some PC 5.25" disks for macs at one point, but those almost certainly
won't work) to aMac and have it work is by using the "//e card" for
certain LC Macs and some (68030, 68040) performas. Ignore the fact
that the plugs are the same size-- that's meaningless in the real
world. [Apple does have this bad habit of recycling connectors to
death at times.] 

   With the //e card, you can read and write //e disks from a Mac
fine.  Without that card, you're probably going to have to try and set
up some kind of null modem connection, as Apple could never be
bothered to support the millions of 5.25"-only Apple II users
directly. They'd rather you paid $$$ for the 3.5" drives or got a GS.

Nathan Mates

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