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Bootstrapping and Apple IIe from a UNIX host
- Subject: Bootstrapping and Apple IIe from a UNIX host
- From: shutterhead <shutterhead@gmail.com>
- Date: 14 May 2007 08:14:19 -0700
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I recently got an Apple IIe after years of not having any 8-bit
micros.
Unfortunately I tossed my Apple disks years ago (actually, all of my
8-bit stuff, in a junk removal error).
My Apple IIe is a 1984 model with 80col card, Unidisk controller,
SuperSerial card, and a pair of Unidisks.
It seems to me that I should be able to create a bootable floppy by
sending the disk image from my UNIX machine over a serial link,
and have the Apple write the image out to the floppy drive.
I assume I could do something like this to get the program copied to
the
Apple and running:
Apple: in#2
UNIX: cu -l ttya
pr#2
call -151
<enter hex code for program>
<run program>
<send disk image to apple>
Apple: program reads data and write it to floppy
Is this possible?
Even better, has someone already done it, because I don't currently
remember enough of any of this to write the program, even though it
shouldn't be that hard.