Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uwm.edu!linac!convex!lamont From: lamont@convex.com (Bradley Lamont) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: WANTED: utility to read Apple IIe disk Keywords: Apple IIe Message-ID: Date: 25 Jun 91 19:33:58 GMT References: <34458@shamash.cdc.com> <1991Jun25.163303.9212@Sugar.NeoSoft.com> Sender: usenet@convex.com (news access account) Organization: CONVEX Computer Corporation, Richardson, Tx., USA Lines: 15 Nntp-Posting-Host: trojan.convex.com In <1991Jun25.163303.9212@Sugar.NeoSoft.com> peterc@Sugar.NeoSoft.com (Peter Creath) writes: > >Then, find anyone with a Mac with an FDHD drive. (SE/FDHD, SE/30, IIfx, >IIci, IIsi, II LC, etc.). You can then use "Apple File Exchange" to read >directly off a 3.5" ProDOS disk. > You don't need a FDHD to read ProDOS disks. I have done it using my old SE. Both ProDOS and MacOS use the same low (and I mean really low, as in the method of magnetizing the drive) level encoding scheme. You only need a FDHD to read other methods of encoding (i.e. IBM). Later, Brad Lamont