More //c questions!

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

The story so far--

Okay, now I have a working //c.  A peek under the hood (interesting how
they used the disk drive to hold the keyboard in place...) reveals that I
not only have the "ROM $FF" model, but that I have the "suspect" serial
port IC.  This doesn't bother me too much, as I seem to recall that the
problem was not with all high-speed serial I/O, but rather with high speed
serial I/O at certain baud rates.  After all, the Scribe and ImageWriter
both work fine with all //c's, and those run at either 9600 or 19,200 baud.

Now for the more disturbing situation.

Last night, I built an AppleWriter //e disk off of my enhanced //e's hard
drive.  It boots into ProDOS 8 v. 2.0.3 (I think that is right...) on the
//e.  On the //c, I get the P8 splash screen, then the system hangs.  Is
this the infamous "Apple Only" ProDOS version, or did I just get unlucky? 
It *was* the first time I tried to boot the //c into ProDOS.  If I need to
use a different ProDOS version, which should I use...and if I don't happen
to have it, is it available at support.apple.com?

Well, when the AppleWriter disk didn't boot, I whipped out an old game. 
It didn't work right either!  It was a pinball game, and it kept leaving
traces of the 'ball' all over the screen, ultmately resulting in an
unreadable mess.  It works fine on the //e...

Any thoughts?  This //c stuff is all new to me.  I didn't realize it was
so different from the ][e!

--Dave Althoff, ][.
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