Hi Nelson, Forgive me if I construe your problem incorrectly. If I understand your objective, then here's the deal.
There are two floppy disk media types in question, 5.25" and 3.5". You have an Apple IIgs that has both. It appears that you have data on this machine that you would like to transfer to a Macintosh. Your 3.5" drive is the key because a Macintosh floppy drive is capable of reading this disk which has been formatted on your IIgs (in ProDOS format) provided that File Exchange or PC Exchange on your Mac is active (depending on OS version). Your first goal is to move the data in question to 3.5" diskettes. That's the easy part. How you put this data to disk is critical. Most all data bases I'm familiar with can export their data in a text format. Another viable format could by sylk. Regardless, avoid just saving your database to floppy disk in DB Master format using the standard "Save" command. It's doubtful that any Mac program will be able to read it. However, once you export the data in a text format, you will be able to import it into countless other programs. The ones you would be interested in would be the Appleworks data base, Appleworks spreadsheet or Microsoft Excel (or any Mac compatible data base that I've failed to mention). Good Luck! Ward Oldham (How's that Airport problem coming along?) On 10/30/02 7:08 PM, "Nelson Helm" <helmkyny at clockwinders.net> wrote: > I would very much like to transfer data from Apple][ DBMaster > (proprietary OS) 5.5" floppies to almost anything. > I have access to an Apple][gs which uses both 5.5" and 3.5"x3.75" floppies. > From the little floppies to CD, HD, whatever, is a snap, > tho I'll still have to learn about formatting for new data bases. > > ? Perhaps a serial cable would be easier than disks? > > Nelson Helm > > The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be November 26 > For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of > activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>. > The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be November 26 For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
