The IIgs can do Appletalk with a mac using the serial port, you just need a version of GS/OS installed with the correct driver. There are also HFS drivers for GS/OS 6 that let you read mac hard drive partitions directly.

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Can GS/OS read a DOS 3.3 floppy? What I'm looking for is an easy way to get DOS 3.2 and 3.3 files to MacOS X. Is GS/OS another name for ProDOS, or is it something different? My GS has Woz' signature on the front, but apparently has the 01 ROMs. It has a 1MB RAM expansion card and a single 5" floppy. Is it worth messing with? I don't know anything about the GS generation of Apples except that they evolved from the Apple II. Are 03 ROMs available? I have a ROM burner.

What I've been doing is using the ProDOS Convert utility to move files from DOS to a 3.5" ProDOS floppy, which a 68K Mac can read. That is:

DOS (HD) -> 5" DOS floppy -> ProDOS 800K disk -> Mac SE -> Mac Cube (OS 10.4) -> Mac Mini (OS 10.6)

Big nuisance, since Snow Leopard Macs have lost AppleTalk, and OS X doesn't read ProDOS, and ProDOS doesn't read any DOS format except 5" floppies.