Re: Apple //e - URGENT!!!

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

In article <31288D9A.41C6@coltrane.ls.huji.ac.il>,
Joel Hakoune  <joelh@coltrane.ls.huji.ac.il> wrote:
>I've got about a hundred Apple //e diskettes, containing files created with
>AppleWriter, presumably on DOS 3.3.

>Today, I'm using a Mac, and I need to transfer all those files. I've got
>access to several kind of Macs, and one has a MS-Dos 5.25" floppy drive (NB
>card), if it might help.

   Nope, won't work. Apple II and IBM PC 5.25" disk formats are
incompatible at a hardware level. To read them on a PC, you'll need
access to some very rare hardware.

>Otherwise, transfer through IBM PC is also an option.

   Same story. Your best bet is to find an Apple II with a modem and
send stuff out via null modem to a PC or Mac.

Nathan Mates
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