On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Willi Kusche wrote: > It sounds as if you expect the ability to attach a 3.5 inch drive to one > of your Apple IIs will solve your problem. Not unless you get your hands on a > high density controller card and high density disk drive. PCs can't read > normal density Apple II disks unless you have a special controller card for > the PC.
Actually, I don't believe that even getting a 3.5" drive setup, superdrive or not, will help here. He's using a //e or //c and I'm unfamiliar with any driver or utility that'll allow ProDOS to read an IBM-compat. disk. On a GS he could get Peter Watson's MUG! utility, but that's not going to help on a //e. Even the BlueDisk option won't give a //e the ability to read IBM disks since it's still going to only read/write ProDOS (or DOS 3.3? Not sure about that one) using IBM encoding. A null-modem connection and comm programs, ADT, CrossWorks if he can find it, or getting a GS and setting up MUG! are the options I can think of. Of course, if the Apples are hooked up to the internet he COULD email the info to himself and save them on the IBM machines--word processing files are the easiest if you just do the files as text. DB's can be saved as tab-delimited, and I think a lot of spreadsheets can still read DIF files. Later.................Howard ____________________________________________________________ Computer n. A pocket calculator with a glandular problem. -- Apple2list is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... / Buy books, CDs, videos, and more from Amazon.com \ / <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/lowendmac> \ Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Apple2list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/apple2.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/apple2list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
