Re: Durability of 5.25" floppy disks....

[KP <kjpmail@gmail.com>]

On Oct 15, 12:24 am, IUnknown <stevement...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Been trying to get my old IIgs set up for my son to learn programming.
> Finally got it hooked up to an old t.v in 40 column mode. Was digging
> through my box of junk - found an old 5.25 prodos 1.0.1 system master
> disk......   without any sleeve lying under a bunch of crap at the
> bottom.
>
> Threw it into the 5.25" drive.... it booted. The whole shebang
> works. :)
> Ran filer - formatted a 3.5" floppy... copied the files between disks,
> and booted off the 3.5"
> Made a few backup copies as well.
>
> Now to get some prodos 16 system masters brought over to the machine.
> I have a serial cable and a PC handy. Any suggestions?

This should tell you all that you need to know: http://adtpro.sourceforge.net/bootstrap.html

You actually don't need to bootstrap from bare metal.  You already
have ProDOS, so just boot into ProDOS, dump into Applesoft, and then
just pick up the ADTPro instructions at Step #8, "Now send a copy of
the ADTPro client program..."

Personally, I think Copy II+ 9.0 or 9.1 is far easier and more
efficient than the old ProDOS Filer program.  (Though I DO enjoy the
ProDOS User's Disk intro that displays all of the cards installed!)