🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1993Jan7.033648.4533@cs.cornell.edu>, karr@cs.cornell.edu (David Karr) writes:
|> Some discussion on the net in December suggested to me that my PC
|> might be made to read the files from diskettes formatted for an
|> Apple II+.  Unfortunately the messages seem to have been purged from
|> my site.
|> 
|> Can anyone tell me where to get a program for my IBM PC that will
|> copy files from diskettes formatted for Apple II+ DOS 3.2.1 to
|> a PC-DOS directory?  I'm looking for an executable or a complete
|> program source, either free or for a reasonable shareware fee.
|> I am *not* looking to spend countless hours of my own time
|> figuring out how to do the job.
|> 
|> The situation:  My brother has a dead Apple II+ in New York City, and 
|> I brought all the old diskettes--full of programs my father and I
|> wrote up to ten years ago--up to Ithaca hoping to transcribe them
|> on my PC (or at least back them up before the data fades away).
|> There's probably nothing of real value on these diskettes and I have
|> hard copies of most of the good stuff (my father had the habit of
|> making listings of everything by hand!) but for old times' sake it
|> would be nice to have on-line access to this stuff.
|> 
|> (Yes, the other solution would be to fix/replace the Apple; we may
|> end up doing that as well.)
|> 
|> -- David Karr (karr@cs.cornell.edu)

	Another solution is, assuming the contents of the floppies are not confidential, to find someone who has an Apple with serial card and simply upload the files to a PC, or even to the net.