Re: NadaNet file server coming soon...

["bieling@terra.es" <bieling@terra.es>]

On Mar 27, 10:27 pm, "biel...@terra.es" <biel...@terra.es> wrote:
> On Mar 27, 9:24 pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > My AppleCrate machines have modified ROMs that replace the self-test
> > code with NadaNet boot code (published on my web site).  When they
> > power up, they go to into this code, which polls for a boot server.
>
> > -michael
>
> A card that looks like a Disk II interface to the autostart ROM should
> not be too dificult or expensive to make.
> Just drop into it's ROM (would 256 bytes be enough ?) your boot code
> and voila !
> This way, there's no need to modify the a2, and the card can be moved
> around to other IIs as needed.
>
> Regards,
> Jorge

Hey, you could even carefully design it's code to serve too as a small
NadaNet "toolbox" so that the Applesoft code becomes even shorter
yet...

Regards,
Jorge.