Date   : Thu, 21 Feb 2002 17:59:47 -0500 (EST)
From   : Victor Rozanov <vic792r@...>
Subject: Re: Ridiculously O/T

Hi.

> now got most of my BBC programs across to the PC, and am about to start on
> my old Apple II discs, but by what I can gather I'll need an actual Apple II
> to have any shot of success.

In what format you have your old Apple2 programs and files?
If they are on 3 inch ProDos disks, there is no problem to copy
data over to your PC/MAC.  Some of the apple2 computers had even
5.1/4inch ProDos  floppy drive with 1.44mb capacity and that format
can be read by the PC also.

The bigest pain is copying of 5.1/4 inch single side Shugart 140k
format. I do not think it can be even emulated on any other phisical
drive. Because Apple did not use even FM writing, they used their own
format and read/write method. It was implemented in apple2 disk controller.
The only way I can even think of is just to find an old Apple2 computer
and start from that point. I have one at home but it is probably useless for you
because I live in San Francisco. It is realy easy to get the whole Apple2
computer here in the States. I saw them for sale in many places around.
The price is about $10 - $25 with the floppy.

Sorry to say that but unfortunatelly this is I think the only way to get your
data somewhere else than on your Apple2 floppies!

Cheers.

Victor.