Re: GET Apple II OS from internet

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

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In article <7h3id6$lbg$1@newsreader.ipf.de>, "Thomas Haenselmann"
<haensel@okay.net> wrote:


>Germany, may 9th, '99
>
>Hey,
>
>I discovered the question << How do I get OS-disks for my new apple IIx >>.
>Than people are told they have to find a vendor or user group to get ProDos
>etc.
>
>But there should be an easier way, because apples have the build in basic.
>One could write a little program for transfering disk-images from the pc to
>an apple via serial connection. It would have to access the IO and write the
>bytes to disk track by track.
>
>Does anyone think that is possible? I am willing to implement the pc-side.
>
>Thomas

Yes, it's possible, although you generally need to wire a special cable.
It's even been done. But you're faced with a chicken-and-egg problem. You
create a program for the Apple II so people can move downloads from a
Windows machine to the Apple II without a bootable floppy--but how do you
get the program to them? :) You'd need to send them a bootable floppy with
the program, or they would have to get a communications program on a floppy
so they could download the program from the Internet.

Mike Westerfield