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From: rat@madnix.UUCP (David Douthitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Appleworks -> IBM?
Message-ID: <1642@madnix.UUCP>
Date: 27 Nov 90 04:43:46 GMT
Reply-To: rat@madnix.UUCP (David Douthitt)
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matsumot@ADS.COM (Michael Matsumoto) writes:
|
| Can someone tell me
| if there exist programs out there that run on an IBM PC that can read
| Apple II 5.25" floppy diskettes in Appleworks format?

There ain't no such animal.

The IBM and Apple II 5.25" drives are fundamentally different in their
hardware - extra hardware is required.

For the IBM, you can get a TrackStar board which gives you a complete
IIe (unenhanced?) emulation.  It has connections for 5.25" drive on its
card.

For the Apple, I remember something called MatchPoint - which is a board
designed to read/write IBM 5.25" drives.

There is, of course, the PC Transporter for the Apple II.  Like the
TrackStar board, it is a complete emulator - IBM PC/XT in this case.

If you could possibly convert to a 3.5", you could use a Macintosh
with one of those HeeDeeFeeDee drives (high density).  It'll read
Apple II ProDOS and IBM 1.44 ... so there you go.

Hope all this helps....

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