Re: Apple II 3.5" disks transfer to PC

[<art@unknownrealm.org>]

ugh.... thanks for all your feedback.  I've thought about the MS-DOS floopy
disk approach, but my PC doesn't have a floppy drive -- and besides, even if
it did, I figured it would be a pretty slow and painful effort, as I'd end
up have to read the disks in on the Mac and them write them back out to
MS-DOS formatted floppy ones, then finally read those volumes in on the PC.

I really like the idea of being able to natively use my Apple II 3.5" disks
on the Mac -- hopefully without having to use Apple Disk Transfer (from what
little I remember -- that was a pain).  So, I guess I'm back to the same old
problem.  Sounds like I have to upgrade my Mac to System 7.5, but I really
have no way of readily doing that -- save for the old 40 meg External SCSI
hard drive.

If I were to format this SCSI drive on my PC as an MS-DOS partition, would I
be able to mount it on the Mac?  What if I were to use a program like
MacDrive to format it as HFS?  How does one "add" a hard drive to the Mac
anyways?  I tried plugging it in and setting the SCSI ID properly, but no
go.  I'm really wanting to use the Mac as a disk reader and just dumping all
of the SHK files to the hard drive which I can then hook up to my PC and
dump the contents to a *much* faster and bigger drive for burning to a
CD-ROM.

My CD-R is SCSI, but I don't have any Mac Burning software -- and its an
internal too -- so I'd have to scavenge an enclosure from somewhere in order
to actually use it to do the burning on the mac.  I'm sure someone has had
to use a "hard drive" method to xfer Apple II stuff via Mac to PC.