Re: Hard Drive Question

[casa@unm.edu (Jim Pittman)]

Re:

> Subject: Hard Drive Question Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 23:32:12 -0500
> From: "Peter Bruso" <peterbru@ma.ultranet.com>
> Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
> 
> I have an Apple //e with a 20MB hard drive made by First Class
> Peripherals connected to it. The hard drive recently died and I'd
> like to find a replacement drive......
> .... Can someone tell me what type of hard drive can be used with
> an Apple //e ....
> 
> Peter

Get a Focus 20-meg drive from Alltech for about $60. Tell them it's
for an Apple IIe so they will install ProDOS on it. When it arrives,
install it in slot 7. It's one device, no cables, no external boxes.
Turn on your computer. What happens next will depend mostly on
whether your Apple IIe is enhanced or not.

Enhanced Apple IIe: the Focus drive will boot up automatically if
it's in slot 7. The drive probably won't have a startup program on
it, though, so you'll have to install or write one. Sneeze is a good
program selector and is freely available. ProSel-8 is another (it is
commercial) and it includes tons of utility functions. Or you could
write your own program selector in Applesoft BASIC.

Non-enhanced Apple IIe: the Focus drive won't boot, so you'll either
have to get to the BASIC prompt and type "PR#7" then hit RETURN, or
you'll need to have a "pre-boot" disk in your slot 6 drive 1 when you
turn on the computer. A simple HELLO program on this disk can start
up the Focus drive. Let's say you have a suitable startup program on
the Focus drive, Then the HELLO program in the "pre-boot" disk in
drive 1, slot 6 can say:

10 PRINT $(4);"PR#7"

Then when you turn on your computer, the disk in drive 1 slot 6 will
start up, your HELLO program will start up the Focus drive in slot 7
and the startup program on the Focus drive will take over from there.

There are more caveats, though... probably the Focus will have the
latest version of ProDOS (2.0.3) installed on it; this won't work on
a non-enhanced Apple IIe (unless you happen to have a 65C02-equipped
machine, possibly on a suitable accelerator card). So, you'll need
to install an earlier version of ProDOS (e.g., 1.9) to work on your
machine. Alltech might do this for you if you ask.

AppleWorks 2 or 3 or even 4 is easily installed on the Focus drive
and can be started from Sneeze or a BASIC program selector. Add a
1-meg memory card to the IIe and you could install AppleWorks 5 on
the Focus drive. A 1-meg enhanced Apple IIe with a Focus drive and
an AE Transwarp accelerator is a wizard AppleWorks 5 engine.

Setting up your Focus card and installing software is MUCH easier if
you can install the card temporarily in a vacant slot of an Apple IIgs
running GS.OS. But, with a utility such as Copy II Plus or ProSel-8
you should be able to do it all on your IIe.

: Jim Pittman - AppleQuerque Computer Club - where the owners and
: users of real Apple II computers are an endangered species now.
: casa at unm dot edu

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