Reviving my Apple //e

For a long time I've known that there are utilities available to archive old Apple II disks onto the PC but never got around to actually doing it. I still have boxes full of 5.25" disks containing all kinds of pirated games and other apps (warez) that I painstakingly collected back in the 80's when I ran the Shooting Star BBS. I also still have my Sider ][ 20MB (yes that's MEGAbyte not GIGAbyte) hard drive containing all my heavily modified BBS code. Recently I was contacted by one of my old users (not as infrequent as you might think) who got me interested in pursuing this again. So I dug out the //e and powered it up. Last time I tried this I couldn't get any 5.25" disks to boot but this time everything worked! I was even able to run AppleWorks and open some old high school homework files. So now I just need a USB-to-serial adapter and I'll be in business using ADTPro. Not really looking forward to 9600 baud serial disk transfers though...

-DC-

PS: For those who are interested, you can run lots of old Apple II games in your browser for free (just in case you really miss those low-res graphics).