Looking for someone who can read Apple II disks

[DonM]

I'm searching in my local gaming groups, but thought I'd also ask here.

An ancient adventure project that was NEVER published has recently been found... on the author's original Apple II disks. Marc and I are looking at salvaging this project, but the first leap is somehow safely reading these disks and recovering the data.

Anyone out there have some experience in this area?

 

[HG_B]

I'm searching in my local gaming groups, but thought I'd also ask here.

An ancient adventure project that was NEVER published has recently been found... on the author's original Apple II disks. Marc and I are looking at salvaging this project, but the first leap is somehow safely reading these disks and recovering the data.

Anyone out there have some experience in this area?

What you need is someone with the hardware with Apple DOS 3. . Just contact a data recovery service near you (if you live in a large metro area) and they will probably be able to help you.

 

[GM Joe]

Someone with a working Apple ][ and ADTPro ,along with the necessary cable to connect up with a modern PC, could get it done.

I have all that. But I'd be awfully nervous about the disk getting munged in the drive. Old floppies can be temperamental. I have hundreds from back in the day that read and write just fine, but occasionally I'll run into one that wasn't stored well or had some manufacturing defect, and the magnetic layer will just peel off in the drive.

For a one-of-a-kind item like this, you may be best off going to the expense of a data recovery company.

 

[aramis]

I have a functional Apple IIgs.

Not set up, but I can pull it from storage.

 

[DonM]

Thanks folks. I'm very aware of the data reading problems... it's NOT the first time I've had to read old Apple disks, just the first time since I got rid of my own apple system.

:nonono:

 

[inexorabletash]

If you remember USENET, the folks on comp.sys.apple2 can usually hook you up with someone reliable to retrieve the data. Let me know if you need help there - I've got a little bit of 'cred' from some retrocomputing endeavors.

I similarly archived my old floppies (including some attempts at Traveller software) a few years ago, but no longer have the original hardware handy.

 

[Enoff]

Perhaps a software emulator might help? I think mini vmac might be able to, explorer on my PC lists the virtual disks I am using as Apple II discs. There are other emulators out there.

 

[DonM]

This issue has been solved.