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Am 10 Mar 2006 12:43 meinte Jules Richardson: Well, depends what Apple you need to get the data on. My suggestions from most easy downto would be: 1. If you got an A2gs with a 1.44 drive running GSOS, then just put it on a DOS floppy (mind 8.3) 2. If you got any Apple with a 3.5" drive (and usualy running ProDOS then) get your data via DOS Floppy, or Network onto an 68k Mac (some PowerMac will also do the trick) and copy them onto a ProDOS disk. (*1) 3. For any Apple with a SSC or CC, plus any generic PC-Box running DOS, a Null-Modem cable and ADT (Apple Disk Transfer - just do a google search) will do the trick. There's also a MacOS version. 4. Write your own little reciveing programm for the II (should be possible with some basic) and do a COPY file>COM1: on your PC. 5. Just type it in on the Apple, using a Hex-Editor :) *G* As for hardware, there have been some solutions. First to my memory is always the Turnover board, which I found a good (some particulat list member might have a different opinion:) solution back when I had a PC/XT and an Apple II. I did all programm development for the PC in Turbo-Pascal on my beloved Apple, and then just recompiled it on the PC. Just, the Turnover is a strict PX or PC/XT board. I never got it working in an AT (or above) machine. Then there is Matchpoint card, but it also requires an 8-Bit PC and a real (read 40 Track) PC-Drive, as with the Apple Turnover. Oh, and don't forget the Trackstar Board(s), basicly an Apple II or IIe on a PC-Card, a huge IC-Graveyard. It can (of course) connect A2 drives and transfer data from and to the PC. In fact, you may use Apple II utilities to do all copying. Again, you need a classic PC or AT Bus. But at least it works on 486 machines (if you keep the bus clock at less tna 7 MHz) Furthermore there's a software called Disk-to-FDI (or such) Apple (3,5") drives via a parallel port to a modern PC - I have never used it, but heard some good reviews about. What you definitly need is ShrinkIt for the PC, and maybe FID (do not confuse with the IFD from Dosk disks), a PC utility to manage .DSK imiges of 5.25" Disks. Gruss H. *1 - I found that a LC III (or if you want to do more a 475) is the best companion for your Apple II. For one it can be easy connected via Appletalk, second it can read/write ProDOS disks and store ProDOS disk images on a hard drive, making it an ideal archive system for your II, and third it can house a IIe card to allow to test and run some (most) A2 soft directly. Extreme helpful -- VCF Europa 7.0 am 29/30.April und 01.Mai 2006 in Muenchen http://www.vcfe.org/