Re: Help needed transferring software from apple to pc

[peters91@crocker.com (Model Worker)]

In article <13825@gos.ukc.ac.uk>, jsr4@ukc.ac.uk (Monts) wrote:

> hi,
> 
> Does anybody know a way or transferring disk images of apple
> II, IIe and III disks to a PC for backup? I've got loads of 
> disks for these machines, and really need to back them up
> as images and store them on my pc's drives- some of the disks
> are getting pretty flakey already...
> 
> presumably the data could be sent over a serial link from the
> apples to my pc, but anyone got any code for the apple side
> of things to do this? I can hack together something on the pc
> end without too much trouble- but how can I grab the *entire*
> disk image using the apple machines? I don't just want the
> files on the disk, but the whole 140Kb (or whatever) of data.
> 
> I've got no apple II, but do have a IIe and a III (does the III
> have a serial port as standard? Can't remember and it's been a 
> while since I used the 'III... still, I may have one- definitely
> got a parallel interface for the III)
> 
> any help would be most appreciated!!
> (or is there any way I can hook up a apple II / III drive and 
> controller to the pc? Suppose it would be possible to interface
> the apple II drive cards to an ISA bus and write software to
> drive it.... maybe... :)

Try  ftp://ftp.asimov.com//pub/apple_II/utility/ap2222pc.zip 
This progam contains files and instructions to do the transfers between an
Apple ][ and an IBM PC. Good luck.

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