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			<title>Re: reading old apple ii diskettes</title>
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			<description>Hiya Bobito,
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;if you do acquire a IIGS, there will still be a fair amount of setup involved to then get the disk images over to a Mac.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can make disk images with Copy II+ and Asimov and save the images to a 3.5&quot; floppy disk. The easiest way of then getting to more modern Macs is using an older Mac - one with a 3.5&quot; floppy drive. Hopefully, you can network this Mac to another more modern Mac by ethernet.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, you could try this service:
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.retrofloppy.com/&quot;&gt;http://www.retrofloppy.com/&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;They've been around for a while, but I've never needed to use them myself.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;- Alex&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Posted to: reading old apple ii diskettes &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/general-discussion/show/292?start=0#post295&quot;&gt;Show Thread&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/general-discussion/reply/292?start=0#post295&quot;&gt;Post Reply&lt;/a&gt;</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:44:15 +0200</pubDate>
			<author>Alex Lee</author>
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			<title>reading old apple ii diskettes</title>
			<link>https://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/general-discussion/show/292#post292</link>
			<description>Hi,
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;  I have a bunch of old 5.25 &quot; diskettes from my Apple II+ in high school.  I've been trying to figure out how to see if the data on them is still good.  If I get a IIgs from ebay, will it read the disks and write them to a format my macs can read? I do have a mac with an old 3&quot; floppy disk drive. I would like to make disk images from the Apple II+ diskettes, move them to a modern mac, and run them in an emulator like Virtual II.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also what about the IIgs itself, will it run AppleII+ programs ?
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If I get the gs on ebay, are the disk drives separate?  
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There isn't a service anywhere that will do this is there?
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thanks
&lt;br /&gt;Bob
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Posted to: reading old apple ii diskettes &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/general-discussion/show/292#post292&quot;&gt;Show Thread&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/general-discussion/show/292#post292&quot;&gt;Post Reply&lt;/a&gt;</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:05:43 +0200</pubDate>
			<author>bobito</author>
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