Re: //e 5.25" drives & MAC

[chngai@cs.cuhk.hk (Ngai Chi Ho)]

Greg Felling aka Fletch wrote:
:~) A quick question.  I have two or three old 5.25" drives for my //e and 
:~) //+.  Well, those machines now serve as excellent doorstops.  Anyway, my 
:~) question is this: Is it possible to use those old 5.25" drives with my 
:~) mac (an LC running system7.1).  What I really want to do is convert all 
:~) my old Appleworks files. I've heard that system 7.5 has ProDos Built in, 
:~) but I don't want to buy the new system.  Even if I can't convert these 
:~) files, I could use my eight billion old floppies for misc. storage.  Any 
:~) help/advice would be greatly appreciated.  E-mail, please.

If you have Apple IIe card installed, and your drives are the grey ones
(the manual says that, I think you can't use the black ones), you can
get the files.

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