Re: How to... ??? (Prolly a FAQ, but haven't spotted the answer)

[Charles Richmond <richmond@ev1.net>]

Don Bruder wrote:
> 
> OK, here's my situation:
> Multiple (about 8-10) "dumpster recovery" //es, sevearl of them
> physically smashed, but electrically intact. By cannibalizing cases,
> keyboards, and other smashed but not "broken" bits and pieces, and a
> couple judicious applcations of the soldering iron to replace snapped
> off capacitors and repeair similarly damage on cards, I've gotten a pair
> of 99.9% intact machines running. Both are now "Enhanced //e" units.
> They've got disk controllers, ext. 80 column cards, Apple SSC II cards,
> accelerators, memory cards, and assorted other "toys" jacked into them,
> and they're ready to rock-n-roll once again. No drives when recovered,
> but I've hit the local salvation army-type store and now have a stack of
> 5.25" drives to go with them, and several dozen (perhaps a couple of
> hundred) "MECC" disks of educational (but pretty well useless to me)
> software. I've grabbed the "ADTandDOS33DMP" file, but there is no "ADT"
> in it... just the DOS33DMP, which I have transferred as directed, (with
> a little adaptation, since I'm a Mac man, not a Wintel user) and
> successfully used the resulting "install" to init some disks soI at
> least have a DOS to work with. All is good there, but I keep seeing
> references to a program called "ADT" (or is it "AOT"? references seem to
> conflict, though "ADT" seems more likely to be proper) that will help me
> transfer disk images to the //e. But so far,I haven't managed to figure
> out where to get it, and once gotten, how to get it onto the //e so I
> can actually put it to use. The closest I've found has been "DKS2FILE",
> which I've grabbed, but I'm still in the dark as to how to get it onto
> the //e in operational form (The copy I have is in a .shk archive, which
> means, obviously, that I need to un-shk it. But doing that needs the
> ability to do un-shk, which is presumably contained in a .dsk file I've
> downloaded, but likewise can't figure out how to get onto the //e to run
> it)
> 
You might consider getting some PC tower cases...and hosting the
good electronics in it, if the Apple ][ cases are broken. That
way you will end up with a greater number of usable machines.

Please post if you get a Mac port of ADT...I would love to have
it myself. I may need the source...I will probably be using
a 68k Performa for the task, running Mac/OS 7.5.

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