Re: Apple II 3.5" disks transfer to PC

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

Wow, so much info, I almost couldn't take it all in. My fav
method of transfer is Zip disks. You can fit 90+ meg on
them and if you format them using HFS, you can read them on GS/OS in ][gs
and Mac and if you have
HFVExplorer or TransMac on PC you can read them
there as well. I haven't read one on the ][gs, but I assume
that if you have the hfs.fst installed you should be able to
see them on the desktop. The only thing is, you can't use
the SCSI Zip drive on the PC without a SCSI controller,
and you can't use a parallel one on the Mac or ][gs.
However, once you get one on the PC you only need one
more to move from Mac to ][gs and back again. If you
have Zip drives give it a go. It works great for me. I have
everything I ever installed on the Mac on one formatted
disk. I only have like 15 140k's and 20 800's on the II so
it isn't an issue but try it.
Getting to that hard drive problem. First it must have terminator resistor
packs installed or an external passive
terminator installed in the spare port. Second, if it doesn't
have Apple Rom it might not be able to run on a Mac at
all. I have run into this only twice, but there are many that
can run on a Mac. Quantum is a good brand for Mac.
That is just about all I have to offer at this time, but I'm
always here to help if I can. Good Luck.

Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprises
http://garberstreet.netfirms.com


<art@unknownrealm.org> wrote in message
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> 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.
>
>