Re: convert OLD apple text files to pc format

["Jayson Smith" <nospamratguyspambegone@nospamplease.bellsouth.ihatespam.net>]

If you have an Apple, you should be able to use something like ADT to
transfer the disks to disk images on the PC.  Then use an emulator to get at
the text files, or one of several utilities to pull the text files from the
disk images and save them to PC files.  Or you could use a terminal program
on the Apple and the PC to send the files from the Apple to the PC.  The
advantage to this is that the files would be PC files with no extra work
needed.  The disadvantage to this method over the disk image method is that
you'd probably need to do one document at a time.
Unfortunately all the above methods require a real, working Apple.  If you
don't have one, I don't think you can read the disks on the PC.  I once
tried to copy an Apple 3.5 disk on the PC for some stupid reason, and
somehow it damaged the contents of the disk so the Apple could no longer use
it!  So you'll have to find an Apple somewhere to do the transfer.
There's also the possibility of sending the disks to someone with a real
Apple to do the transfer, but this has a couple of disadvantages.  No apple
= no way to make backups of the disks before you send them.  So if they get
lost in the mail, they're gone and there's nothing anybody can do.  Of
course this would be bad enough for common program disks, but for text
documents they would probably be totally irreplaceable.  The other problem,
of course, concerns privacy.  Anybody who does transfers of this nature will
naturally have access to all the files on those disks.
Hope this helps!
Jayson.

"Rosalie" <pozalia@groundcontrol.us> wrote in message
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> I have old 5 1/4 inch floppies (text) written in 1982 on an apple
> "Know your apple" type pc.  These files need conversion to pc format.
> Can anyone help with this conversion?