Re: Apple IIe PC to Disk without serial connection

[salfter@salfter.dyndns.org (Scott Alfter)]

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In article <bdj2vp$s5v$1@woodrow.ucdavis.edu>,
Chris Alaimo <cpalaimo@excite.com> top-posted (grr):
>"ShadowCaster" <shadowcaster2002@charter.net> wrote in message
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>> Hello.  Is their anyway I can put Apple IIe images on a disk from my PC
>> without a serial connection?  I have a 5 1/4 drive for my PC? Can this be
>> done?
>
>I've been told that it can be done if you have a really OOOOLLLD 360k
>drive. But I'm talking like early 80's or late 70's era drive.

It takes more than just a 5.25" floppy drive...floppy drives on the Apple II
used a completely different (and incompatible) recording method, so you
would need some sort of interface card that supported it.  Good luck finding
one of those.

>Why dont you just buy a frickin serial cable, dude?

A serial cable won't do you much good unless a serial card is also installed
in the IIe.  Maybe he doesn't have one (which is probable if the computer
was used with a parallel printer and no modem).  

(Three Super Serial Cards are up on eBay right now.  One's even at a
reasonable price.  You'll still need telecom software to make any use of it,
but ProTERM's only $20, last time I checked.)

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