Re: 5.25 Question

[hal@budapest.math.macalstr.edu (Harold Byron Bouma)]

FORDE@UV6.EGLIN.AF.MIL writes

> RTFQ, Tom -- read the full question!  Pascal won't boot from slot 7.  
> Putting the 5.25 in slot 5 causes some older copy protected programs to 
> gag and quit.  My son has already dealt with the problem by using a small 
> Applesoft program on the 5.25 to boot the 3.5 in a lower slot.  I was just 
> looking for a more elegant solution.  Thanks for the answers, though.  I 
> guess I just put too much info in my questions -- all I really wanted to 
> find out was whether the 5.25 drives sold with the GS are the 'smart' ones 
> or merely repackaged dumb drives.  It seems the latter is the case.

	Apple has not really modified the Disk II drive over the last 12 or so  
years that it has been out. They added a few things to the ROM for daisy  
chaining and some stuff so that the computer doesn't sit there and try to read  
from it all day, but all and all, its still the same mechinism. Amazing though  
that Apple still charges $250 retail for it....

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