Re: Apple //e Dated 1984

[ferdimh@gmx.de]

On Dec 15, 9:51 am, "Guillaume Tello" <houten....@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> "Justin" <N...@nobecauseIhatespam.com> a écrit dans le message de news:
> fjvp2a$2j...@aioe.org...
>
> > So I'm wondering...  What kind of hard drive can I get for it?
>
>     I think that a CFFA would be nice: plugged into an expansion slot, it
> comes with a CompactFlash card on it and acts like a hard drive.
>     Compatible with Prodos, you can then use Dosmaster to create DOS volumes
> on it to re-use your old stuff.
>
I don't really like the idea of a hard drive on the Apple ][.
Floppies ave several advantages: they can be write-protected by
hardware (which works VERY reliable, unless you have an old (buggy)
DuoDisk).
They can be stored in secure places. When they aren't in  the drive,
the can't be clobbered.
Just think how angry you would be, if you just wrote an assembly
language program, launched it, and it clobbered ALL your data at
once.
Though recovery may be possible, it will be a lot of work.
And I like to have something to touch, e.g. if I want to use Bag of
Tricks, I just throw in the disk and reboot. I don't like to fiddle
with menus to select another volume.
The ProDOS subdirectories aren't really supported by some software
(e.g. S-C Assembler: one always has to type in the whole path) making
the the use of a complex directory structure(which is needed, if you
have big volumes) difficult.
And I don't know what the space is needed for. I have about 40 disks
of 640KB, which all aren't full and many are just backup copies. A lot
of stuff is doubled on other disks, so I get to a total of about
5-10MB of data.
IMO the only sensible use for a hard disk would be to put the system
and all utilities needed on it and write-protect it. I don't really
trust the system here, because there is no memory protection and so
on.

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Ferdinand