Re: Apple IIc questions: Serial ports; Keyboard; drives; etc...

[voss@i40s16.ira.uka.de (Stefan Voss)]

In article <2o2ro6$qcu@wea.eel.ufl.edu>, acg@kzin.cen.ufl.edu (Alexandra Griffin) writes:
|> Hello,
|> [stuff deleted]
|> 
|> 2.	Is there any way to distinguish between cursor-control keys
|> and their ASCII equivalents (i.e. cursor-left and Ctrl-H; cursor-right
|> and Ctrl-U; Return and Control-M)?  The Apple comm. programs support

No. The cursor keys produce the same character as their respective control
key combination.

|> 
|> 3.	Are there still any Apple II software archives available on
|> the Internet?  Could someone suggest a good site to check?

Sure. Just check out the FAQs of this group. For example: cco.caltech.edu

|> 
|> 4.	I've heard that Apple II 3.5" drives can read Macintosh 800K
|> disks (which PC drives are incapable of doing because of the GCR/MFM
|> mismatch).  Will Macintosh or II-GS external 3.5" drives work on this
|> IIc?  The connectors look the same, but I've heard conflicting
|> reports.  I don't want to borrow someone's drive and end up frying it!
|> If these won't work, where's a good source for IIc drives?  The drive
|> connector on the back has a 3.5" disk symbol on a sticker next to the
|> engraved 5.25" symbol, so supposedly some kind of drive should work!

There's only one 3.5" drive that works with a //c, an Apple 3.5" UniDisk.
Mac drives or those platinum drives that the IIGS can use don't work with
a //c.