Re: Apple IIe/IIe+ prodos in rom?

["Roger Johnstone" <rpj@thinkapple.com>]

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In article <pmd-0407992131130001@stpras01-p41.mts.net>, pmd@NOescape.ca
(Perry Dueck) wrote:


>In article <931140310.696194@diddley.primus.com.au>,
>the.cat.in.the.hat@usa.net wrote:
>> Does the Apple IIe/IIe+ (the big grey one not the beige one) come with 
>> prodos in rom or something? At my school they had a grey one (I think it's 
>> a IIe+) and it seemed to have prodos running without a disk in it. can 
>> someone help please????
>
>
>Re: ProDOS in ROM....most likely not, as far as I know...
>
>I suppose there could be an internal hard drive (such as a Focus Hard
>Drive from Alltech) which is plugged into one of the expansion slots
>inside and has ProDOS installed on it...
>
>Does anyone know if there were any Apple II expansion cards built
>with DOS 3.x or ProDOS x.x.x in ROM chips by anychance?
>
>regards, perry

I know of at least one company that made a ROM disk for the Apple II. SCRG
(Southern California Research Group) made a card called the quikLoader. I
have never seen one but it was advertised as an "instant AppleWorks". The
idea was you sent in a disk with a copy of AppleWorks configured the way you
wanted it and they would program the EPROMs and send them back on a card.
Presumably the disk also had to have ProDOS on it.

There was someone in this newsgroup recently who was working on a new Apple
II ROM disk card. Sorry, I've forgotten who it was.

Roger.