Re: Apple II 3.5" disks transfer to PC

[Scarlet Otter <SecretaryBird@SoftHome.net>]

On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 23:18:11 -0500, <art@unknownrealm.org> wrote:

>I have a box of Apple II 3.5" disks (mostly containing SHK archives) I'd
>like to transfer to a PC so I can burn them to a CD-ROM.  I have a Mac
>Classic II (system 7 on it) with an external Superdrive, and a SCSI
>Harddrive (which MacOS doesn't seem to recognize).  What would be the
>easiest way to xfer these things over to my PC?  I thought about possibly
>using the SCSI hard drive as an intermediary (ie, copy all of the SHK
>archives to the HD while its connected to the MAC and them connect up the HD
>to a PC and use Basilisk or some other such tool to read from it).
>Transfering these files via a null modem cable is just simply not
>acceptable.  There are 100+ 3.5" disks, each having possibly multiple files
>and a null modem cable approach would be a major pain in the ass.  I don't
>own an Apple II anymore, and mostly just want to archive these files (plus
>possibly make some of the stuff available via the web for others).
>
>Any thoughts / suggestions?
>

Your Mac should be able to read and write MS-DOS disks, so it should
be a simple matter of copying the ProDOS disks to your hard drive and
then copying them from the Mac to a PC formatted disk, then from
there, copy them to your PC and archiving them on a CDR.

-- Scarletdown