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Re: Reward offered: Macintosh software for Corvus Omninet
A2Aviator wrote:
Constellation III was a release primarily for the Macintosh, as when
booted an Apple //e, or /// on the OmniNet, even if you had set up the
drive with Constellation III, the Apple II and /// support was still
Constellation II.
Odd. I have a full set of Constellation III diskettes for the Apple II and it
really was quite a bit different (and more advanced) than C2. Granted that
you didn't HAVE to update existing // and /// partitions to upgrade the
server, but it was certainly possible.
Also in the midst of all this, I am still not able to locate the set
of 5.25" Constellation II disks, and all the A2 archives out there
have only Constellation III and utility sets prior to it being
officially called the Constellation operating system. The original
Corvus drives, the H series ones, that used the ribbon cable did not
have the same setup as the OmniDrive. You could load Constellation II
onto the H series drives, but you needed a multiplexer to OmniNet
bridge box to get that drive on anything other than an Apple ][.
What exactly are you looking for? I have full sets of Constellation II
diskettes for Apple II and III. The multiplexer to Omninet bridge was what
they called a Disk Server and I have a couple of them (along with a multiplexer).
The OmniDrive had host adapters for the II, ///, Mac 128-Plus and SE
with serial port adapters. Additionally, there were Atari and TRS-80
Transporter interfaces.
The II and /// card are basically the same except that the
official /// card has no firmware on it and the card is a little
bigger so it reaches all the way forward into the case notches so it
doesn't move. If you added the firmware ROM onto the /// card you
could use it in a II- and just yank the ROM on a II card to use it in
a ///.
That's interesting. So, if I remove the PROM from an A2 transporter it will
work on an Apple ///? I have a full set of A3 support diskettes that claim to
be for both flat-cable and Omninet.
They worked all the way through to the IIgs, but the situation was
more optimal on the IIgs if you had newer firmware. In a similar way
to the ProFILE card, it worked just not as fast.
I have an image of the Transporter PROM for the IIGS if anyone needs it.
There's some other images of the OmniDrive stuff in the Twitpic
listings as well.