Re: Help with OS for IIe

[Frank Carney <frankc@cyberhighway.net>]

It took me forever to get the OS for my machine, but I did do it.  This is
how I did it, I do not know if this will help you.
[1] I found a boot disk at a thrift store.  I bought out an entire bin of
5 1/4" disks.
[2] I wrote a utility that allowed me to download text files in basic.  If
you want the source and how to use it let me know.
[3] Then I downloaded binscii by redirecting the input to the serial port
and and text transferred it over.  If you info on this let me know.  By
the way this version of binscii built itself after it tranfered using the
monitor.  Very slick!
[4] I transferred shrinkit using my utility to transfer text.
[5] I then tranferred a comm program and binsiied and unskrunk it.
That is it.  The hackers or poormans download depending on how you look at
it.
Note:  All downloading was off of an IBM using a comm program at 1200 baud
to a Laser EX.
Also note that the 1200 baud is the default for the Laser serial port ( at
least on my machine).
This is really nonstandard but it works for me.

C. Whittenburg wrote:

> I bought an unenhanced IIe (from what I can tell) with disk drive, and
> lovingly cleaned all the grime from it.  I'm ready to boot 'er up, but
> I don't have an OS disk, and can't download one since I don't have
> anything which can write in the proper format.  If anyone can help me
> obtain DOS 3.3 or Prodos or something, I would appreciate it.
>
> thanks,
> chris
> chrisw@srv1.thelanlab.com