Hmmm... I think the old Apple II disks (5 1/4) are in a different encoding format.  You would probably need the real hardware and then a super-serial card to dump it out serially to another box.

Kelly Black

On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 01:37:37PM -0600, Philip C Mendelsohn wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Callum Lerwick wrote:
> 
> > Somewhat off topic, but does anyone out there have the ability to copy 
> > Apple II Appleworks wordproccessor documents on 5.25" disks to PC? I 
> > tried doing it using my IIc and a serial connection a while back, but 
> > its the revision A IIc with the flakey serial port, it sorta worked at 
> > 300bps, but then the other problem is it didn't have enough RAM to print 
> > certain documents. :P
> 
> I think (since there's a Linux Apple ][ emulator) that anyone who has a
> machine with a 5.25" floppy could.  Or maybe just dd it.  How many disks
> are you talking about?  I've got such a drive.
> 
> Phil M
> 
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