Re: IIe to ibm file transfer. Help! :)

[nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates)]

In article <4ocg07$5p5@fountain.mindlink.net>,
Allan Nienhuis <Allan_Nienhuis@mindlink.bc.ca> wrote:
>Hi there...  I've been going thru some of my old disk archives, and
>have come across some of my old IIe disks.  There is one in particular
>that I would like to obtain the source code off of.  I don't have my
>IIe anymore :(  I've been surfing the net looking for programs that
>might read the disk from my pc, but I don't think they exist.

   Without extra, specialized hardware on one or both sides, Apple II
and IBM PC disk formats are irreconcilably different. It's a hardware
problem that can't be solved in software.

>Would someone be able to help me?  If there's software that I can't
>find to let me hack the source off of the disk from my pc, or even if
>I could snail mail the disk to someone with a IIe, and they can email
>me the files (as text) 

   Basic programs, or what? Should be fairly trivial, as long as the
disk is still readable. (Yes, I guess I'm volunteering... I've got my
GS next to a pentium box and can upload stuff.)

Nathan Mates
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