Re: Apple//c newbie questions

[gkomatsu@Hawaii.Edu (Galen Tatsuo Komatsu)]

In article <%KyS1.138221$RC5.12955281@news.rdc1.bc.wave.home.com>,
David Cross <dcross1@nospam.home.com> wrote:
>An Apple ][+ with the old Disk ][ controller card (a collectors item these 
>days!) would be able to boot such a disk.
	Is there anything notable to distinguish them from a not-old
Disk ][ controller?

>Almost all software written for the ][+ will work on a //c as long as it
>is on a DOS 3.3 or ProDOS disk.

	Will BOOT13 from the DOS3.3 System Master disk work for 13 sector
floppies?


...and I have some questions myself (guess who else got a //c recently?)
since the library's copy of the tech ref is currently loaned out.

	Just what do the Keyboard and 40/80 buttons do?

	Is ctrl-CA-reset supposed to do nothing now?

	What does the external floppy connector accept?  I saw a message
from someone else looking for a Unidisk3.5 stating that his Apple 3.5 disk
drive doesn't work with the //c, and guess what 3.5 drive I have...  Also
the Apple 5.25 disk drive (the daisychaining one with DB25 connectors.)

	Will the RGB port work with the monitor on my GS?

	Does it take a special mouse, or is it the same one as with the
//e and early Macs?

	The LCD Flat Panel Display (no, I didn't get one with my //c =^)
I'm just wondering...) does it draw its power from the video signal or
requires it's own source?

	Any notable quirks/differences to tell someone who's been using
a //e most of his life?  (Besides the physical attributes and lack of
slots. =^)


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