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Re: ProDOS ?

In article <IVFl6.43248$o85.238381@news-server.bigpond.net.au>,
Simon Biber <simon@basilisk2.cjb.net> wrote:
 
> No, unfortunately the basic Apple II system is not able to read or
> write disks without loading a DOS.
 
If so, how can it load DOS from the disk?    <evil grin>
 
THe firmware on the disk controller card actually has some (very
limited) capability to read a disk: it can move the disk head to
the outermost track, and then it can read sector 0 on that track
and execute the code there.
 
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