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Re: Pascal - CP/M - and Microdrive

wood.miles_@_verizon.net wrote:

I just started back in 8 bit Apples after being away for 25+ years.
(Something about job and family as I remember.)

I picked up an Apple //e Platinum from eBay and a Microdrive from
ReactiveMicro. I've had a blast over the past month. Disk images from
the web are not a problem to convert to 5.25" floppies or their own
subdirectories on the Microdrive. CidarPress has been a treasure. I
also found a working Z-80 Softcard at a garage sale. (I was told that
it didn't fit an IBM.)

Now the questions. I can get CP/M working (v2.2 and v2.3.) Can either
of these use the Microdrive or any hard disk on the Apple? Likewise,
can the UCSD Pascal system use the drive or am I better off looking
for another Pascal that will run under ProDOS?
I don't think you'll have much luck getting the original SoftCard CP/M to work on the Microdrive. If you can locate a PCPI Applicard (aka MicroPro Starcard), my ProPartition package (recently let into the wild as free software) will let you use any volume recognized by ProDOS for CP/M.
I have a CP/M volume carved out of one partition on my CFFA at the moment and there's no reason it won't work with the Microdrive. 

Steve