Re: Apple2 card for Mac, BBS

[shack@crash.cts.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <1994Jul4.122338.15137@pro-ren.cts.com>,
Edward Floden <edward@pro-ren.cts.com> wrote:

>>	1) Can the Apple2 card use the Mac HDisk ?
>
>No. ProDOS 8 can't see the Macintosh partitions. The Macintosh can see the
>ProDOS partition, though.
>
>A thought, though: I wonder if ProDOS can see the Macintosh partitions, if
>you install AppleShare?  But that's a terribly expensive investment just to
>see if it works.

In order to even try this, there'd have to be something like a workstation card
in the selection of fake cards in the //e option panel, I would think. But then
what would you do to get to a server volume on the same machine?

I think one of the 8 bit HFS disk reading programs makes more sense.

>Well, ProLine, but I'm biased. I don't think that anyone's tried running it
>on a IIe Option Card, though it works fine on a real Apple II.

Gads, dedicating a somewhat expensive Mac to do what a dime-a-dozen //e can
do just as well - I dunno
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Randy Shackelford                                Huh huh, that was cool.
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