Re: Copy Files from an Apple IIGS to a PC

[mlgstudios@yahoo.com (mlgstudios)]

"Greg Andrzejewski" <pressyourluck85@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<9oB3d.6$R%2.11198@news.itd.umich.edu>...
> "mlgstudios" <mlgstudios@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> > I know this has been posted many times but I don't seem to have found
> > a good solution (i.e. A to Z) for what I need to do.  I want to get
> > some old (as in, version 3.0) Appleworks files from the 3.5 disks to
> > the PC so that I can archive them.  From what I understand, the only
> > way to do this is to get some sort of hardware solution for the Apple
> > such that it can write to a PC formatted disk, or set up communication
> > between the two computers through a serial or parallel port.
> >
> > Would someone please point me to resources that will enable me to do
> > this, if it can be done?  I don't have an external modem for the
> > Apple.  If the two computers can be connected directly, what cables
> > (and connectors) would be needed to do this?  What software would be
> > needed to set up communication?
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Matt
> 
> Do you have access to an older Macintosh (pre os x, built in floppy)? If so,
> you could just format an 800k mac 3.5" DD disk with the HFS FST in GS/OS
> 6.0.1. The mac can read the 800k disk, and can write to PC 1.44 mb floppy.
> 
> -Greg

OK, I've found a Macintosh SE with a superdrive.  It will boot but
just shows a disk with a question mark on it, so I'm guessing that
there's no internal hard drive (or the hard drive is blank) and I'm
looking around for a boot floppy of some sort.  Two questions:

1.  Do I have to install an operating system on this, or will it
operate like a IIGS where you can boot from a floppy to the GUI.

2.  Where are resources on operating/using a Mac SE w/Superdrive?

Thanks again for your help,

Matt