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

["Glenn Jones" <rg.jones@rogers.com>]

"Charles Richmond" <richmond@ev1.net> wrote in message
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> 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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> |   Charles and Francis Richmond     richmond at plano dot net   |
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There is a MAC version of ADT (v1.2) floating around ...

now if I can only remember where I found it....

oh yes ..it was

ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/utility/macadt121.sit.hqx


I have not actually used it yet ....

Glenn