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how to help an Apple IIe user help himself use disk images



I know somebody who just got his hands on an Apple IIe system, that has only 2 5.25" drives. NO hard drive, no 3.5" drive. Only 128K of RAM.

How would he use a resource like Asimov to download games or other programs and copy them onto 5.25" disks so he can play them?

He's been asking me to use my Apple IIGS, it's hard drive and LocalTalk connection to a PowerMac (Powermac downloads from internet, IIGS copies from the network to local, decompresses and writes) to do the job, but is there some way he can do it himself?

The problem is that 5.25" disk images are larger than the capacity of a 5.25" disk, and the programs I use to write them back to floppy disks require them to be uncompressed. So, how would he get the disk image onto his computer in order to write them back to floppies? 128K of RAM means no RAMdisk like the way I use my PC Transporter card to store the uncompressed disk images on prior to writing.