Re: Looking for Sider Diskettes

[tturner@ecn.ab.ca ()]

Paul Grammens (grammens@svn.net) wrote:
: Bryan Villados <news001@nospam_macgeek.org> wrote in message
: > I'm hunting around for the First Class Peripherals Sider diskettes... I
: > have the original manual, and they list the following three diskettes:
: >
: > The version that's currently installed on my Sider is 4.0. If someone
: > could point me to an FTP site I could download from, that would be
: > great. Thanks!
: >

: I could use the disks too.  I found a Sider hard disk and sometime later was
: given a Xebec Sider Host Adapter. I could also use some info on the cable, I
: didn't get one with either the card or hard disk.
<snip>

--> Gottem somewhere in this mess. Dunno what version, though.
    Came with my 10meg Sider. One thing I didn't like about the
    utility capabilities, was that if one decided against setting
    up a Pascal or CP/M partition, etc - then changed one's mind
    later - too bad. You cannot make them without destroying the
    ProDOS partition and the files it encompasses. There was no
    such animal like `Partition Magic' for the A2 world, at that
    time. More's the pity. I've got too much stuff on the ProDOS
    partition on the Sider for me to move elsewhere (nor a place
    to move it to); in order to be able to start over from scratch,
    making the partitions I passed on the first time around.

    I strongly recommend one creates at least minimal partitions
    for the other OS's, when one sets up a Sider.

    I'll have a look-see this weekend to see if I can find those
    diskettes and what version - though the HD might have that info
    and save me rummaging around. Just a sec...  Hmmm - it says:
    SIDER MAIN MENU UTILITY VERSION 4.0/3.1
    (C) 1985 FIRST CLASS PERIPHERALS

    So it seems I'll be a-rummaging some time this weekend...

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