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

["Hugh Hood" <hugh.hood@a2central.com.remove-3ls-this>]

  To: Don Lancaster
Don,

I might suggest:

(i) picking up a dirt cheap OS 9 (still reads ProDOS) equipped Beige
PowerMac G3 (includes a 3.5" SuperDrive and built-in ethernet) on eBay;
(I've seen them as low as $25)

(ii) Installing Apple's free DiskCopy software (or Aladdin's ShrinkWrap 3.5)
on the machine; (if it's not already on it)

(iii) feeding the machine your 3.5" 800K ProDOS floppies and letting
DiskCopy make an image file out of each one; (there may be batch mode ...
can't remember)

(iv) hooking the dirt cheap Beige PowerMac G3 up to your PC via their
ethernet ports (hub optional with crossover cable);

(v) FTPing the image files to your PC;

(vi) opening the image files on the PC in CiderPress (now free); and

(vii) using CiderPress to manipulate your files (I suspect most of them are
ASCII text files anyway).


A more abbreviated method (though _perhaps_ slower) would eliminate steps
(ii), (iii), (vi) and (vii). With it you would simply feed the Beige
PowerMac G3 your floppies, select 'all files', and FTP them to the PC.
The Interarchy 6.3 (FTP) program for Mac OS 9 is now free.

Hugh...

P.S. - Thanks for the LaserWriter Corner and Ask the Guru all those years.
Learning and using PostScript is still a blast.




> From: "Don Lancaster" <don@tinaja.com>
> Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 22:30:34 -0700
> To: comp.sys.apple2
> Subject: Is an apple 3.5 disk to USB converter available? Where?
> 
> 
> If not, what is the simplest way to transfer files on thousands of IIe
> disks?
> 
> 
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> 
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