Re: Quadram Quadlink

[hochstrasse@ubaclu.unibas.ch (Urs Hochstrasser)]

In article <4vefsi$3ij@pith.uoregon.edu>, nparker@cie-2.uoregon.edu (Neil
Parker) wrote:

> I found an Apple II treasure in Goodwill this afternoon--a Quadram Quadlink
Oh sweet memories! 12 years ago I had the opportunity to test drive such a
board  when it was brand new...
Worked flawlessly in an original IBM PC with most games, as I remember.

[snip]
> But when I got it home and plugged into the old XT, it didn't work.
Did you get the installation instructions as well? I think you had to
remove  the (34 pin flat ribbom Shugart bus?) floppy cable from the disk
drive and plug it into the QuadLink. From there a cable ran to the Disk
drive. Similar things had to be done with the speaker and probably video
as well.

> The
> bootup program asks for the Filer disk, so I insert the Filer disk, and
> the disk drive runs for a few moments, and then reports a "problem", and
> loops back to the ask-for-the-Filer-disk prompt.
What filer do you mean? It can't be the ProDOS Filer disk. If I remember
right, the bootup program attempts to load the 'ROM' from disk into the
card. (from a PC-DOS or Apple DOS 3.3 disk?) When this succeeded you could
boot any Apple ][ compatible disk from the internal PC drive. Perhaps you
try a DOS 3.3 disk with FPBASIC on it as a 'Filer' disk.

In the meantime I try to perform some excavations in my basement...

Cheers
--Urs

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