Re: help running prodos on a // clone <please!>

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altered@imag.net (Keven Fedirko) wrote:

>Okay.  A buddy got this clone from his parents (un-used for 10
>years), and it "works", but he didn't have any db s/w for it,
>so over christmas I looked through my stash, and found
>my copy of appleworks.  "Great".  But this system doesn't
>seem to want to LOAD it off the disk, or even the 3.3 system
>disk I've made.  All the stuff worked fine on my //e, but not
>his system which seems to be a APCO 64k system, and Tiger
>on the back (not sure which is the brand and which the name).

Tiger is the brand name and that computer is not a IIe
clone.  It is, I believe, a II+ clone.  Tiger made a short
lived IIe clone called the Tiger Learning Computer.

>It would load some of the other bootable disks (binarys with
>an interactive catalog, and full-disk applications).
>
>Is it even possible to run prodos on such an old machine, or was the
>//e + //c series the minimum configuration?  Or perhaps his
>system doesn't have a 80 column card or something.  Is there
>s/w versions of these things?  The prodos was only v1.0.1
>or some-such-thing circa 1984 and 1986.
>
>The other snag might be there is no "apple" keys, but
>perhaps a patch could be found to enable an alternate keypress...
>
>That computer could *actually* be really useful to this guy,
>so that he could catalog his immense CD-library.

It may be a capable of using ProDOS v1.0.1, but the disk
controller might not be.  It might be hardcoded to use
13 sector disks and thus DOS 3.2.  DOS 3.3 and ProDOS
5.25" disks use the 16 sector format.