Re: Transfer Wordstar files to MAC

[mnementh@netcom.com (David R. Villegas)]

ag471@yfn.ysu.edu (Eric S. Ford) wrote:
>In a previous article, t.kraegen@garvan.unsw.edu.au (Ted Kraegen) says:
>
>>Can anyone advise how to transfer Wordstar files, which were created on an
>>Apple IIe with CPM card, to MAC?  I have a 3.5 disk drive on another Apple
>>and have previously transferred PRODOS files onto the MAC via the MAC
>>program PROLINK.  Can files be transferred within the Apple IIe from
>>Wordstar(CPM) format to PRODOS or DOS3.3 format so I can then use the above
>>method.  I want to avoid using a modem etc if possible.  Many thanks for
>>any help.
>
>This is an easy three step process.
>
>1.  Use CHAMELEON (a utility available from most ftp sites) to read the
>CP/M disk and write the file to either a Prodos or Dos 3.3 disk.


A handy alternative is to make a null-modem serial transfer.

So I don't end up with a one-line response, here are some silly alternatives
that I've actually used (comments about engineers' social lives to /dev/null):

1.  Print out the Wordstar files and then scan them on the Mac and then run
an OCR program on the scan and then run a spell-checker.

2.  Program the game I/O port to control a robotic arm that types the text
on the Mac.

3.  Hook up the Apple's video output to a video digitizer on the Mac.  Read
each screen of text as a GIF and then run OCR etc.

any other ideas?  :-)
  
play the Apple file as morse code through the speaker and have a Mac IIsi's
microphone digitize the sound and write a program to decode it?