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In article <1992Oct4.175322.14676@u.washington.edu> andnick@u.washington.edu wr
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>Hi there, My father needs to convert a lot of data on 5.25 apple IIe
>disks  to Mac IIsi. I know little about this, in spite of having a Apple
>for years (years ago) so this is what I figure are his options:
>
>1. Buy a 3.5 drive for the Apple IIe. 
>   problems: external power supply right? can I even get such a thing? 
>              where?
>2. buy a 5.25 drive for the Mac IIsi
>   problems: same as above
>3. OCR the printed documents into the mac.
>   problems. he has a crappy printer and it might lose data.
>             also, this would take a very very long time.
>4. Null modem between systems.
>    problems: I know exactly zero about this regarding mac/apple links.
>               intuitively it sounds easy but who knows these days?
> 
>I would appreciated any help or comments on these.
> 

Probably your best solution is to find someone who has access to a IIe with
a 3.5" drive and copy the files onto 3.5's and then use Apple File Exchange
on the Mac IIsi to read the ProDOS disks direct.  You could also find some
one with an Apple IIgs running System 6 which could move the files from the
5.25" to the 3.5" disks in Mac format.

A null modem would work, but the files will still be in ProDOS file types.

You will most likely lose formatting done with your Apple II documents, but
if they print the files to ASCII files you will be able to translate the
data.  You may also be able to find Apple File Exchange translators for
Appleworks documents which would convert them to Microsoft Works files.

Hope this helps,
Eric
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