Re: Translation from Apple][ format to Mac

[penderga@hac2arpa.hac.com (Stephen L Pendergast)]

In article <1993Jul26.235429.4176@nosc.mil> Matthew C. Scallon,
scallon@nosc.mil writes:
>I have a Apple ][ disk that has some information that I need.
>
>I have a Apple PC 5.25 Drive and a Macintosh IIfx.  I also have Apple
File
>Exchange.  When I try to read the disk, the disk drive says that it is 
>unreadable.  Can't Apple read its own disks?  What gives?
Macintosh and IBM disk sector formats are compatible, with different
directory structures.
Apple II 5.25" disks use the same media, but different controller and
sectoring so that they
are incompatible. Your easiest option is to use a serial link and connect
a mac to an
apple II with comm programs, or use a bulletin board as an intermediary.
We have a PC card
called "Apple Turnover" which allowed an IBM drive to read an Apple disk,
but it was not
the most cost effective or reliable.