Re: Prodos like dos33dmp?

["John Van Winkle" <appleiieman@charter.net>]

What Mac do you have and what kind of floppy do you need?  Email me and let
me know.



"Scott Johnson" <scomps@purplewire.nospam.org> wrote in message
news:ysYBd.2526$Xs6.486@twister.nyroc.rr.com...
> Thanks for all the great information!  It does sound like a lot of fun
> actually :)  I just wish I'd made this move earlier in the holiday
vacation.
> Tomorrow it's back to work on current(?) computers etc so time will be
> limited once again.  As far as the SCSI drive, he pulled on the clear
> signals cable (yes that cute little plastic strip with the traces in it)
and
> destroyed that.  Sad but true.  It was clipped into place and he didn't
> realize it and figured it should just slide out.  oh well.  I mentioned
the
> SCSI drive strictly in the sense that even though I do have an older mac
> laying around, I don't have the floppy media (this is a pattern isn't it)
to
> boot it and the hard drive is now officially a paperweight :)
>
> At any rate, I'll mess around with this a bit more, but I think you're
right
> that I will have some issues with the emulators as the //c plus seems to
be
> a fairly unique machine in the line.
>
> >
> > Sounds like fun, if that's the kind of brainteaser you like. There are
> > probably a few stumbing blocks you will run into; I don't recall all
> > the details of the ProDOS boot process, so bringing the memory image to
> > life may involve some weird tricks loading the I/O hooks in zero page
> > and so forth. You may have some frankenstein version of ProDOS along
> > the way that has unique bugs or difficulties.
> >
> > Yeah, buying a 5.25 drive would be the easy way out. Not sure what you
> > mean about the damaged SCSI drive: most hard drives in my past were
> > sealed enough that you could only get at the SCSI cable (relatively
> > simple to repair/replace) and soldered-on devices.
> >
> > --Joe
> >
>
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