Re: Prodos like dos33dmp?

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

I have a drive that is good I can give you if you will pay the shipping.  I
have formatted and tested the drives I have.  They are Apple drives.  If you
are interested, email me.


"Scott Johnson" <scomps@purplewire.nospam.org> wrote in message
news:v30Cd.103430$Uf.46892@twister.nyroc.rr.com...
> The drive is the internal SCSI drive (250Mb I believe) from a Performa
575.
> I also have a Mac SE with the network adapter.  Of course I have no boot
> media for either of them.  The Performa will run OS8 which I do have on
CD,
> but alas the hard drive is required.
>
>
>
> "John Van Winkle" <appleiieman@charter.net> wrote in message
> news:DS_Bd.31850$5b5.13383@fe05.lga...
> > What kind of drive are you needing for the Mac?
> >
> >
> > "Scott Johnson" <scomps@purplewire.nospam.org> wrote in message
> > news:zZVBd.2500$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.  :)
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
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