Re: New to the group, have questions about a IIe and cards...

[jon@i-manila.com (Jon Co)]

"William R. Walsh" <newsgroups1@idontwantjunqueemail.walshcomptech.com> wrote in message news:<Ijn%9.142157$6G4.16303@sccrnsc02>...
> Long story short, I'm wondering if I can in fact substitute a hard disk like
> that? Will the controller still see it? How do I prepare the disk for use?
> (It has an IBM DOS file system on it now and I know that will have to go,
> but I am wondering if it can be erased from the Apple?)
I think you need the vulcan utilities to format and partition your
drive.  Also, I'm just wondering but werent the vulcan drives SCSI?  I
remember IDE drives didnt come out till much much later.

> Another card I have happened upon is something called a "PC Transporter"
> seemingly also from Applied Engineering. From what I have been able to
> gather just by looking at it, it seems to be a complete 8086-based PC on a
> card. I seem to have the complete selection of internal wiring for it,
> specifically, two lines to intercept the system speaker and a piece that
> "intercepts" the keyboard as it plugs into the mainboard.
> 
> I would love to use that card, but I have read in various places that I'd
> need a special disk drive that plugs into it. If anyone has a disk drive for
> this that they could part with or pinouts...I'd love to know about them.
> Does this card require any special software to work?
You need ms dos and a pc-style floppy disk to boot ms dos from.  I
think the pc transporter's floppy controller only worked with 5 1/4 pc
drives.  apple drives also work from the PC but can only be read by
that system.

> 
> Finally, I'd like to ask about the Diamond Trackstar 128 card. I have one of
> these in a Tandy 1000SX, and it is complete from the hardware point of view.
> According to what I've been reading on it, I need software to make it work.
> It seems that this software was copy protected and therefore the only way to
> get it is to have original disks. I'm wondering if anyone here has a set
> they could sell or a way to get around the copy protection and make copies
> of the disks.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any and all answers, and apologies if I've asked too
> much or violated guidelines here in the group. If needed, my reply-to is
> valid after some minor corrections...remove the dots surrounding and the
> "idontwant...." bit to reply.
I think a lot of these are covered in the CSA2 faq.  My response to
these topics are based on memory and are probably not accurate, You'd
get more properly checked data by reading the FAQs