Problems with //c...

[amaddiso@extro (Alex Maddison)]

Hi all,

I just purchased an Apple //c second-hand (of course). The internal drive 
worked perfectly with my old software at first, but when I tried some 
older disks, it stopped reading anything from any disks (including recent 
copies on brand new disks). I had a similar problem with some of the same 
disks on both the //e and //GS (at a university computer room) where the 
drives stopped reading any disks. What's going on? I don't remember this 
problem from my original Apple ][! How do I get it fixed?

Also, how do I tell what type of //c I have (whether it can use an 
external Apple 3.5" drive, for example)?

Replies by e-mail preferred.

Alex.


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