Re: Way to read old Apple II 5.25" floppies

[nathan@winternet.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <4t0dte$6kg@gizmo.usc.edu>, Mike Harm <mharm@gizmo.usc.edu> wrote:
>Our lab has a bunch of old 5.25" Apple II floppies containing
>ascii data.  Sadly, we don't have an Apple II lying around.
>We need to get at the data somehow.

   Find someone with a real Apple II.

>Is there some driver, program or such that will allow a dos machine's
>5.25" drive to read an apple II 5.25 floppy, or is
>there a hardware issue as well?

   It's a hardware issue. To overcome, you need either a real Apple II
and a serial link off, or specialized (and rare) hardware on one or
both sides.

Nathan Mates

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