Re: Apple III question

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

karen@uab.edu  (bathswife) asked:

>I recently got two Apple III computers and am trying to figure out
>something that ought to be rather simple but I'm completely new to the
>early Apple systems and am hoping someone might be able to help.
>
>I have copied the systems utilities disks but want to copy other disks
>and can't figure out how to copy anything besides the utilities disk. 
>I have a disk called the Apple II emulator (for the III) and want to
>make a back up copy but haven't been able to figure it out yet.  It
>seems like it would be easy to do but when I boot the system using the
>Emulator disk I only have two choices, to reboot with an apple II disk
>or configure the emulator.
>
>I know the cp/m machines are totally different from SOS (1.1) but when
>I was trying to retrieve my father's memoirs after his health declined
>from his old epson qx10 (a cp/m machine) I finally figured a way to
>convert his files to dos so I could read them on a newer machine and
>transfer to more permanent media and the way I did that was very crazy
>but worked.  Essentially the bottom line was that I would first copy
>the drive 2 disk contents to the drive 1 utilities disk and then
>convert to a special disk etc. etc.  so I am thinking this might work
>with the apple III but don't want to mess something up.
>
>So my question is :  Should I try copying the disk in volume 2 to the
>utilities disk in volume 1 and then copying that on to a blank disk? 
>Or am I making things too complicated?  Any suggestions would be
>appreciated.

No, that won't work.

You can use the Utilities disk "Device Handling" menu.

Select "C" for "copy one volume to another" and then follow
the prompts and swap disks to make the copy.  You may
need to "F"ormat the new disk before doing the copy.

When you copied the Utilities volume to a new disk, you could
have copied any other disk by replacing the Utilities disk with
the one you want to copy before starting the copy.

-michael

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