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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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andnick@milton.u.washington.edu (Nick Anderson) writes:
>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?

No external power supply is needed. Just buy the Superdrive Controller
card for the Apple // (Apple II 3.5 Controller Card part number A0076LL/A)
and use an external 800k or 1.44M drive off your Macintosh). A2-Central
sell this card in a bundle with an AMR 1.44M drive for $330.

>2. buy a 5.25 drive for the Mac IIsi
>   problems: same as above

Ithink Apple's 5.25" drive for the Mac is for reading MS-DOS 360k disks 
so this would not be useful to you.

>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.

Not a good idea.

>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?

This should work - get a copy of Kermit for each machine and purchase or make
a din-8 to DB-25 cable. This is easy if you know how. This would be slower
than option one but cheaper.
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J. Eric Bush writes:

>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.

>J. Eric Bush
>Internet: jbush@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu

This is less true than it once had to be. Once upon a time, the only
translation tool was the Microsoft Works "Works-to-Works" converter for
Apple File Exchange. Now the choices are greater. ClarisWorks (and several
other Claris products) ship with XTND translators for AppleWorks 2.0 and
3.0, word-processor, spreadsheet and (I think) database. The translators
were one of the main reasons I bought ClarisWorks. You can also use the
CrossWorks package for converting AppleWorks files (reads 2.0 and 3.0 on
the Apple II, but only writes 2.0 files - a real problem for many spread-
sheet files that would otherwise be capable of translation from the Mac
to the II). Lastly, there are the MacLink Plus Translators, which will
convert just about anything to anything (DOS - Mac - Apple II).

There may be other packages, and if the orignal data is not in plain text
or AppleWorks or WordPerfect format, then it all gets a lot messier.
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