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Re: Apple 3.5" drive questions
Personally I do the vast majority of my data transfer between the IIgs and
the PC (and occasionally the Mac) on an MS-DOS formatted Zip disk.
--
Peter Watson
-- Write to MSDOS disks on the Apple IIgs?
-- Impossible! ;-)
"Jeff Blakeney" <CUTjblakeney@sentex.net> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 02:03:31 -0500, "GarberStreet Enterprises"
> <willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> >With a little ingenuity and persistence, anything can and will be
> >accomplished. Have we lost the spirit that made the Apple II to begin
> >with. Looks that way to me. Let's stop pushing this around and get
> >together and do something about it.
>
> Well, call me crazy if you want but something has been done about it.
>
> People are looking for ways to use floppies to transfer data to/from
> their other computers and such hardware does exist. If you want to be
> able to use MFM 3.5" floppies, get a SuperDrive and controller or a PC
> 3.5" drive and a BlueDisk card and use it. If you want to use MFM
> 5.25" floppies, get a PC 5.25" drive and a BlueDisk card.
>
> There are a few cards for the PC, which are now generally hard to
> find, that allow your PC to read GCR 5.25" and/or 3.5" floppies. The
> solutions exist, they just aren't necessarily easy to find or to
> afford. For example, I'd love to get that SuperDrive and controller
> from you, I just can't afford it.
>
> Also, this isn't the only way to transfer data between machines. I've
> been using a null modem for years and this is one of the easier and
> cheaper, albeit slower, solutions. In fact, my null modem cable is
> hooked up to a switch box so that I can connect to my PC with the
> click of a switch.
>
> I also have a SCSI card in my PC so I can transfer data using any of
> my SCSI drives as well but I end up using the null modem cable most of
> the time because it is quicker to get going and I'm usually not
> transferring much data. I only use the SCSI method for large amounts
> of data.
>
> One of these days I'll pick up a LANceGS card and then I can network
> my IIgs to my PC. That'll be cool. In the meantime, I could always
> set up my Mac IIci and use AppleTalk to it or just use its 3.5" drive
> that is capable of reading GCR 3.5" disk from my Apple II.
>
> So, as you can see, there are lots of solutions. People just seem to
> get hung up on the fact that they can't do it the straight forward
> way. :-)
>
> --
> Jeff Blakeney - Dean of the Apple II University in the
> Apple II Community on Syndicomm.com
> CUT the obvious from my address if you want to e-mail me