Re: Have: Apple IIe, box of good 5.25 floppies with software. Need: good way to preserve the data

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On Mar 28, 3:46 pm, "Bill Buckels" <bbuck...@mts.net> wrote:
> <nntha...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >The best way to archive your floppy disks is ADTPro:
>
> Disagree. I prefer a Microdrive CF solution. Serial may have been the best
> way in the 1980's.
>
> http://www.reactivemicro.com/index.php?cPath=1_23
>
> Use DSK2FILE if you want to make floppy images. Comes with the Microdrive.
>
> Then just use Ciderpress on the PC side to extract dsk files or make hdv
> image to run in AppleWin.
>
> As far as someone having some ideas, some great minds have already beat them
> to it:)
>
> Bill

Well, emulation isn't a goal of mine. Though I know I could easily do
that if I wanted to. It's not that I'm opposed to it or anything. But
my goal was to use real hardware (thus why I have a personal wall-o-
vintage computer collection). This is why serving floppy images from a
PC (running any one of the 3 major OSes) to an A2e is so attractive an
option to me. Plus it'll preserve the Apple 5.25" Drives from failure
by using them less often (right now they work fine and I'd like to
keep them that way).

So now I have a way of backing up and serving files to the A2e.
Thanks, guys!