Re: Transfer from 2e diskette to PC

[carbide@egine.com]

Oliver Schmidt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> >> We sold our Apple ][e at a garage sale 10 years ago. But I kept
our
> >> diskettes. And now I'd like to find a way to transfer our files to
my
> >> XP machine.
>
> >There are no solutions that don't require other hardware than what
you
> >have. As a practical matter you need an Apple II or an old Mac with
a
> >IIe card and a 5 1/4" Apple II floppy drive.
>
> Fortunately this is _NOT_ true! I posted about half a year ago a
> step-by-step guide in this group on how to do it with the title
> "Reading Apple2 floppies on a PC using Disk2FD".
> It should be pretty easy to find with Google.
>
> You only need an additional floppy drive (5,25" or 3.5") on your PC
> beside the 5.25" one containing the Apple2 floppy - I know this
sounds
> weird but it's exactly this way...
>
> Oliver

Cool, Oliver! I wasn't aware of your post, but did find it. I'll repost
it under the title "FAQ Material", because it really belongs in the
faq.
That reminds me, I think it was Simon who came up with a way to write
bootable Apple II 3.5" disks using a Power Mac with manual inject
floppy drive. Previously, that had been "impossible" too. His solution
was to use DiskDup+.
-Paul