Re: Newbie Problems (//e, //c, IIGS troubleshooting)

["Byron Q. Desnoyers Winmill" <wbdesnoy@ucalgary.ca>]

Hi Dylan,

A few details will help: does your IIgs have a 3.5" drive?  Do you have
access to an older (Quadra or earlier) Macintosh?  You may be able to
obtain blank disks from Radio Shack, or used disks simply by watching
second hand shops.

As far as I know, there is no practical way to access your disk drive on
the Apple II without having some form of DOS available.  There should be,
there had to be a first DOS after all, but nobody has gone to the detail
of documenting it.  I wonder why.  As ADT demonstrates, it is possible to
send a program via the serial port.  Why couldn't the same thing be done
for DOS itself?  (Ie. send enough of DOS to write data to a diskette,
initialize the diskette, then save the image.)  This approach would cover
the IIc, IIgs as well as any II, II+, IIe with a serial port.

> And at last, i have my Apple //e.  When I turn it on, the power light just
> flickers at an approx rate of 2 full on-off blinks per second.  What's wrong
> here?

If there are any peripheral cards in your //e, pull them out then try
turning the machine back on.  If that fixes the problem, put the cards
back in one-by-one until you can replicate the problem.

Byron.