Re: IIc help

["Greg Andrzejewski" <pressyourluck85@yahoo.com>]

Okay, I did what you said and the machine reads the disk, Shows the ProDOS 8
Screen, then locks. There is a line of garbage characters just above the
"All Rights Reserved." One time it said that it needed an Enhanced Apple IIe
or higher. Now what? And how DO you get the case open?
"Scarletdown" <SecretaryBird@SoftHome.net> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 19:56:03 -0500, "Greg Andrzejewski"
> <pressyourluck85@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >I was recently given an old Apple IIc. When I turn it on, SOMETIMES it
beeps
> >and then it says "check boot disk" or something like that. At the top of
the
> >display is says "Apple //c". However, there seems to be a character "@"
in
> >the middle of the screen. Also, when I try to boot with a program disk,
it
> >just goes into monitor dump mode. Same thing with a DOS 3.3 disk. When I
> >just insert a blank prodos disk, it says "UNABLE TO LOAD PRODOS." When I
> >copy ProDOS and BASIC.SYSTEM from my GS boot disk onto a 5.25, the IIc
says
> >that GS/OS requires Apple IIgs hardware. Any ideas on what's wrong? And
> >also, how do you get the case open????
> >
>
> Well, it does sound like there is some sort of hardware problem;
> though I'm not sure what would cause those symptoms.  However, the
> ProDOS that you want to copy off of the GS/OS disk is a file named P8
> (I can't remember which folder it is in, since I haven't booted up my
> GS in a while.)  But once you copy P8 to your ProDOS boot disk, you
> then rename it ProDOS.  Hope this helps.
>