Re: After 20 Years, I'm This Close To Finally Escaping Data Rot -Thoughts?

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Dave Rawson wrote:
> D Finnigan wrote:
>
> > I bought my first Super Serial Card from DigitalDinos.
> > http://digitaldinos.com/DigitalDinos/Pages/ForSale/AppleII/docAppleII.htm
> >
> > Great pricing, and I highly recommend that site!
>
>
> They're currently out right now.  I'll keep an eye peeled.

Another approach you should consider, because of its speed and
convenience, uses no Apple-like hardware at all:

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/2503

For $60 plus an old 5.25" HD drive (from an old PC, for example),
you get a fast way to convert *the front side* of all your disks
to images on the a PC.

Converting the *back* side (if you "flipped" your disks to use
the back side) will require a modification to the 6.25" drive...

Once the images are captured on a PC, CiderPress will make short
work of viewing and/or capturing all the text as PC .txt files.

-michael

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