Re: Help! Apple IIc+ with no working diskettes

["Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net>]

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> Years ago, an Apple IIc+ was given to my grandma for opening a bank
> account.  It sat boxed up for ages, then was passed around the family.
> My sister and BIL had it for a while, called it "junk", and now it's
> made it's way to me.

Congratulations, you have a fairly rare and desirable model there. If you
ever want to part with it, you'll have no problem finding takers.

 I have one of three books (an essentially
> useless "Owner's Guide"), and 2 disks labeled "system" and "tour".
> Niether one will boot.  All I get is ***UNABLE TO LOAD PRODOS*** on
> the screen.

Looks like you can download it from Apple, here:

http://asu.info.apple.com/swupdates.nsf/artnum/n10074


The problem is you have to get that onto an 800K ProDos formatted disk, and
there's no practical way to do that with just a PC. Therefore, you need to
get someone to mail you a boot disk, ideally with Shrinkit and a comm
program on it.   Shrinkit does a lot more than extract archives, it will let
you view text files and AppleWorks files, and view, copy,  and manage the
contents of disks. You don't have to use the Apple DOS syntax with it
either, just pick from lists of choices.
One other useful item, there is a GUI that's a free download in the
archives, that will make your IIc+ have the look and feel of a Mac or the
IIgs OS.

Another alternative is to pick up a cheap Mac that has a SuperDrive, which
can read and write PC and ProDos disks. With that, you can download on your
PC, put the files on a PC floppy, transfer to the Mac, and then use the Mac
to format a ProDos disk and copy the files to it.

If you're going to school, you may be able to use a Mac there, or at a
library, to get yourself going.
-Paul