Apple disk -> MSDOS

From: Lawrence LeMay <lemay_at_cs.umn.edu>
Date: Tue Jan 8 22:43:12 2002

> Do I gather from previous discussions that it's a
> problem reading an Apple II floppy disk on a PC?
>
> I'm about to get rid of my last Apple II clone (No,
> Ernest, I haven't forgotten you) but there are some
> Basic programs on Apple diskettes that I might want to
> port to GW-Basic some day. Trouble is, the Apple
> has no parallel or serial cards and I don't feel like
> copying them off the screen by hand.
>
> I think with a little software I could transfer it
> to one of my PETs via the cassette port, and from there
> it would be trivial to get to a PC, but I'm hoping
> there's an easier way.
>
> I have a CompatiCard I and Uniform, and I still have
> the T300 that no one wanted which can do 96TPI 640K
> MS-DOS diskettes as well as the usual MS-DOS 5.25
> formats, if that's of any use.
>
> Any ideas?

Buy a super serial card on ebay and use it to transfer the files.

-Lawrence LeMay
Received on Tue Jan 08 2002 - 22:43:12 GMT