Re: GET Apple II OS from internet

["Mike Westerfield" <MikeW50@aol.com>]

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In article <Ff0_2.4196$me.1812651@WReNphoon4>, apple2@cgocable.net wrote:


>It is theoretically possible to transfer an Apple program from a PC to an
>Apple II without anything running on the Apple end.  You would need to write
>a simple program for the PC to send a transfer program out the audio port
>through a regular audio cable to the Apple's cassette port.  On the Apple,
>you just load from tape (I forget the load command in the monitor, but it's
>just one small line to type).  Once you have that program over, you run it
>and use the regular serial transfer.  Check your copy of the Apple II
>Reference Manual for details.  :-)

While that's true, it's not very useful. The command, by the way, is LOAD
from Applesoft BASIC. But the cassette port is not on some of the Apple II
models. It's on the Apple ][, Apple ][+ and Apple //e, but not the Apple
IIGS. I'm not sure if it's on the Apple //c and Apple //c+ or not--someone
who has them could fill us in.

Still, even if you're doing this with an Apple that _has_ a cassette port,
what do you do then? Do you save it to tape? You can't save it to
disk--we're presuming you don't have a boot disk yet. Yes, it's
theoretically possible to move some sort of disk O/S over the port this way,
but lets stay in the realm of reasonable here!

As I said, there is a serious chicken-and-egg problem with this approach.
You really do need a physical boot disk from someone.

Mike Westerfield