Re: Is an apple 3.5 disk to USB converter available? Where?

[hatespam@hatespam.com (Longtime Lurker)]

Don Lancaster <don@tinaja.com> wrote:

>
>If not, what is the simplest way to transfer files on thousands of IIe 
>disks?

Seems like you asked this same question a couple of years ago. My
answer then still applies, as I haven't found a better way:

I recommend Eric Shepherd's ImageMaker utility on the Apple II side.

I recently used it to image several hundred 5.25" and 3.5" disks, and
it is by far the fastest way I found to do bulk transfer of lots of
disks.

I penciled a numeric serial number on each floppy, and named the image
file with that number to keep track of them. With this system, it
takes about 20-25 seconds to do one 5.25" disk. Once I got the hang of
it, I was easily doing over 2 disks a minute.

I was writing the image files directly to my server via Appletalk, but
you can just as easily save them on a local disk or flash card of some
kind, as others have noted. Writing locally will also shave another
few seconds off the cycle time.

As was also mentioned, CiderPress is by far the best utility on the PC
side for cataloging/indexing/transferring the files in the images once
they've been created.

Good luck!

LL