Re: Help! Apple IIc+ with no working diskettes

[star_fire@hushmail.com]

If you all are getting fed up with me, I completely understand!  :)

>Using a 'Head Cleaner' disk in the built-in drive may help. (See
>http://home.swbell.net/rubywand/Csa2FDRIVE.html#004 .)  And/or you could try
>doing a Reset (press Control-Reset) after you get the error message and
>entering PR#5 to retry booting the System disk.

Cleaning the drive was the first thing I tried.  I just followed your
other suggestions outlined above and got the same error.

>Whether or not you want to try the from-scratch method outlined above, at
>least one 5.25" drive is very nice to have (if not quite an absolute
>necessity).  A good person to contact in order to purchase a drive that will
>plug into your IIc+ is Steve Buggie:
>
>Be sure to specify that you want a 5.25" drive that will plug into a IIc+.

I dropped by Salvation Army yesterday and picked up a IIe computer
(non-enhanced, on boot it says Apple ][ ) with two 5.25" drives, one
says disk ][ the other says Micro-SCI, an RGB monitor and a tomato box
full of disks, most written, 30 new, for $11.85.  (That's all I had on
me and the lady said OK.)  My 12 year old son dropped the computer on
the way out, a lovely crash, but it seems to work OK despite it.  At
least I was the one carrying the monitor!

I bought it with the hopes of being able to connect one of the
drives to the IIc+ that I can't get to boot.  The box of disks has
probably at least a dozen that are labeled ProDOS on them.
And now do I understand you to say that I need a special drive?
I see that both drives attatch via ribbon to a serial card on the
motherboard.  Is there a way to adapt them to the serial port on the
IIc+?  My husband wanted to remove the 3.5 drive completely and
plug the 5.25" in its slot. I told him that it wasn't what I wanted to
do and that I didn't know if it could hurt anything anyway.

Hmmm...maybe I should just give the IIc+ back to grandma and
just use the IIe.  :)  At least it boots just fine!!