Re: 3.5 Disk Superdrive Controller Card Apple IIe,IIgs New

[Hugh Hood <hughhood@earthlink.net>]

in article 4C999E93.19607.usenet_csa2@a2central.com, a2retro at
a2retro@a2central.com.remove-18x-this wrote on 9/22/10 1:13 AM:
> 
> Boot your IIgs in ProDOS, use Contiki's wget or ftp program and download
> the file to /RAM5 (assuming you set aside some of your memory as a ram
> disk).
> 
> On a stock IIgs with a 2MB ram disk. I ftp'd a 800KB disk image in 39
> seconds which is about 20KB/sec? http was a bit slower @ 17KB.
> 
> I think that's respectable. I'll have to try that on my IIgs that has as
> stock TWGS ...
> 
> For fun I also tried it with a 1MB slinky on /RAM4 and it was a little
> bit slower still which is understandable.
> 
> ;)


Granted, 20kB/second clearly doubles the download speed achieved by using
ProTERM 3.1 at 115,200 baud in an intelligent serial terminal setup to a
*nix machine.

The last time I looked at the Contiki FTP program, however, it allowed only
GETs, not PUTs (one-way FTP only), and wouldn't allow any subdirectory
navigation on the host machine, which certainly are major, big-time
restrictions.

Have these restrictions changed on the current version? If they have, the
Contiki FTP program will get my attention in a major way.

Given its small size and non-GUI interface, wouldn't it be sweet as a CDA
that could be loaded from ProDOS 8 with P8CDA?

Thanks.



Hugh Hood