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Way to read Apple II disks on a PC?
- Subject: Way to read Apple II disks on a PC?
- From: "Fredas" <retsa2@hotmail.com>
- Date: 15 Aug 2005 20:12:31 -0700
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Looking around, I've found a lot of old documentation insisting that
it's
impossible to read Apple II disks on a PC. Key word: old. This used
to
be the story with Amiga diskettes as well, until somebody figured out
that if you had two floppy drives, you could use one to trick the
other,
or something like that, and dump the contents of Amiga diskettes with a
PC.
So I wonder if a similar process has been developed in the case of
Apple
II disks. Anyway, what I need to do is get my data off my old disks,
and I need to do it in a fashion that doesn't involve literally buying
an Apple II with a modem and uploading them one at a time to another
PC.
Hopefully there have been developments lately which enable this. I'd
say the vast majority of the disks are the old standard (3.3?) and
maybe
one or two are ProDOS.
Thanks in advance!