I believe that the Diamond Trackstar can use a PC floppy drive to read an Apple II disk by using a special passive cable between the Trackstar board and the floppy. For me, I use a real Apple drive connected to the Trackstar. Otherwise, I use ADT to get apple disk images into and out of the Apple<=>PC. For preservation of BASIC listings I would get a super serial card for the Apple, null-modem connect it to the PC, do PR#2 and then "list" the program to a terminal program (with screen logging ON) running on the PC. This same trick, console redirection, is used to get the Apple portion of the ADT program into the Apple (except using IN#2 I believe). Rich ========================== Richard A. Cini, Jr. Congress Financial Corporation 1133 Avenue of the Americas 30th Floor New York, NY 10036 (212) 545-4402 (212) 840-6259 (facsimile) -----Original Message----- From: M H Stein [mailto:mhstein@usa.net] Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 11:28 PM To: 'ClassicComputers' Subject: Apple disk -> MSDOS Do I gather from previous discussions that it's a problem reading an Apple II floppy disk on a PC? I'm about to get rid of my last Apple II clone (No, Ernest, I haven't forgotten you) but there are some Basic programs on Apple diskettes that I might want to port to GW-Basic some day. Trouble is, the Apple has no parallel or serial cards and I don't feel like copying them off the screen by hand. I think with a little software I could transfer it to one of my PETs via the cassette port, and from there it would be trivial to get to a PC, but I'm hoping there's an easier way. I have a CompatiCard I and Uniform, and I still have the T300 that no one wanted which can do 96TPI 640K MS-DOS diskettes as well as the usual MS-DOS 5.25 formats, if that's of any use. Any ideas? mike