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From: neisel@intergate.bc.ca (Nelson Eisel)
Newsgroups: comp.emulators.apple2,comp.sys.apple2.programmer,comp.sys.apple2,,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: URGENT: Need to Transfer data from Apple3 disks
Date: 3 Dec 1996 06:24:28 GMT
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In article <32A1B37A.20EE@community.net>, kestas@community.net says...
>
>URGENT: Need to Transfer data from Apple3 disks
>
>        I have to read the data from several hundred Apple3 disks, created by 
>Apple Writer. A small charity I'm associated with used the system for @10 
years 
>and the machine just went south . 
>
>        Is there any utility available to read the disks? If the system was 
>running I could print through a null modem to a PC port and capture the data 
>that way.  Intel system available: O/S's Xenix, Win95. Can re-install FreeBSD
>
>        Please help if you can. Thank you.
>                        kestas@community.net
>

An Apple ][ with a 5.25" drive could read it, but I've never heard of a way to 
read Apple /// disks on a DOS box.

--Nelson Eisel (neisel@intergate.bc.ca)