Re: Apple /// help - please!

[cps@access.digex.net (Chris Smolinski)]

In article <dempson-1508962258500001@dempson.actrix.gen.nz>,
dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) wrote:

> >
> >Actually you can only do a low level format on a III. I hear tell you have
> >to temporarily swap a chip in the drive to do it too.
> 
> Yes, and it is a rather oddball chip: a single-chip micro (Zilog Z8, I
> think) with a piggy-back EPROM.  You also need the Apple /// ProFile
> controller card and the low-level formatting software.  This was never
> publically available, and was a special service provided by Apple
> dealers.  (One of the local dealers had to keep an Apple /// for several
> years after they were distontinued, just so they could do a low-level
> format for a ProFile.)

Funny... one of my Profiles does have such a chip. I always thought it was
an early version, before Apple had CPUs made with the masked ROM.  Any
idea where I could get the software for low level formatting?

Chris

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