Re: //e: Found SCSI Card, Now What?

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lowry@htc.honeywell.com (Dave Lowry) wrote:

>Found a SCSI card (Rev. B?) for my //e.  I'd like to hook up a CD-ROM.
>What brands of drives would work best?  What additional software or
>drivers will I need?  Are there any really good Apple II CS-ROMs?
>Thanks!

Practically any SCSI CD-ROM will work, but that's not the problem.
Although there are quite a few (but not many) CD-ROMs for the
Apple II, they are usually specifically for the Apple IIGS model
which can access HFS and ISO9660 format CD-ROMs.

The Apple IIe can only use ProDOS CD-ROMs, and the only
one that you can currently get is the Golden Orchard CD-ROM.
This one has a single ProDOS partition and many HFS ones.
Naturally, the HFS ones are only readable on the IIGS.  Thus,
your selection of CD-ROMs is basically a small part of a single
disc.

However, if you can find a CD-ROM drive for free or a few
bucks, it may be worthwhile.  After all, even if you can only
access the ProDOS partition of one disc, that's still 32MB of
freeware and shareware!  Good luck!