Re: Apple IIe/IIe+ prodos in rom?

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pmd@NOescape.ca (Perry Dueck) wrote:

>the.cat.in.the.hat@usa.net wrote:
>
>> Does the Apple IIe/IIe+ (the big grey one not the beige one) come with 
>> prodos in rom or something? At my school they had a grey one (I think it's 
>> a IIe+) and it seemed to have prodos running without a disk in it. can 
>> someone help please????
>
>
>Re: ProDOS in ROM....most likely not, as far as I know...
>
>I suppose there could be an internal hard drive (such as a Focus Hard
>Drive from Alltech) which is plugged into one of the expansion slots
>inside and has ProDOS installed on it...

Or a Vulcan drive.  When I was in high school, all of the Apple IIs
were minimally equipped units except the instructor's.  His had
the works including a decked out RamFactor and a FingerPrint
interface card with an HP PaintJet printer (which used FAX paper,
if I recall correctly).  He got mad when I used up too much of
the paper.  ;-)

My guess is that cat.in.the.hat saw a similarly decked out unit
with an internal hard drive.

>Does anyone know if there were any Apple II expansion cards built
>with DOS 3.x or ProDOS x.x.x in ROM chips by anychance?

There was the RamCharger, which provided power to the
RamFactor with the power off.  A RamFactor could thus serve
as a pseudo ROM disk.