[rescue] From the basement...

[Steve Hatle]

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [rescue] From the
basement...
From: Lionel Peterson 
Date: Wed, May 07, 2014 6:19 pm
To: The
Rescue List <rescue at sunhelp.org>

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I wonder what people do to get
around the inevitable death of 30+
year-old 5 1/4" floppy drives (and the
complete lack of new 5 1/4"
media AFAIK)? (Do people use iPods connected to
the cassette ports?)

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Go look at the CFFA card:
http://dreher.net/?s=projects/CFforAppleII&c=projects/CFforAppleII/main.php
It makes using the Apple ][ machines a walk in the park. I love mine.
Disk
images for just about any Apple ][ software you can think of are
"out there".
For the Mac folks, there's the Floppy Emu:
http://www.bigmessowires.com/macintosh-floppy-emu/

This also rocks for the
older Macs with floppy ports. Obviously there's
more options when you get to
the machines with SCSI, Appletalk, etc. but
this is a great option for the
oldest Macs.

Steve