Re: Prodos like dos33dmp?

["John Van Winkle" <appleiieman@charter.net>]

What kind of drive are you needing for the Mac?


"Scott Johnson" <scomps@purplewire.nospam.org> wrote in message
news:zZVBd.2500$Xs6.22@twister.nyroc.rr.com...
> I did place an order for this with Syndicomm a couple weeks ago, although
I
> never got a confirmation email.  It may just be an email glitch and
they're
> on their way.  If I don't hear anything in the next week or so I'll try to
> get ahold of them again.  On the other hand I was looking at this more
like
> the chicken/egg puzzle.  It had to get there somehow!  *grin*
>
> In any event what I was thinking is almost what dos33dmp did.   Transfer
> whatever resident portions prodos leaves behind via a serial link.  That
> should leave me with the MLI, command hooks etc essentially "jumpstarting"
a
> live prodos.  As long as I was in basic at the time, get ADT on the system
> via the serial link and build the media from there?  I do have several
> prodos images but i think they're the 5.25" images.  It shouldn't be too
> hard to make one though, and I've got several emulators running that could
> provide a semi working environment.  What I don't know is much about the
//c
> plus.  If I do this from the //e emulators, will this be a problem?
>
> Worse yet, is my understanding of how prodos works so flawed that this
will
> never work in the first place?
>
> I do have an older mac, but unfortunately my son tried to "help" me one
day
> and attempted the removal of the scsi drive from the machine using the
drive
> heads (fragile) ribbon cable as the leverage point.  I'm sure you're all
> wincing at this.  I know I did.  I've been watching ebay for one of those
> for quite some time as well.  As I understand it not just any SCSI drive
> will do because there is a special apple format on them.
>
> Yes, not having a 5.25" drive has crippled me in this regard.  The //c
plus
> is a nice machine though.  I can see I'm going to have to spend some time
on
> ebay and bulk up on my hardware pile again.
>
>
> "Ed Eastman" <noone@nowhere.net> wrote in message >
> > I'll have to think about a virgin IIc+ scenario, I never even considered
> > that someone with an Apple II would not have a 5.25" drive.  :)
>
>