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Re: Apple 2c dos?



"Peter Ibbotson" <spambox@ibbotson.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:<b13cf3$o2$1$8302bc10@news.demon.co.uk>...
> "Dosius" <steve@dosius.zzn.com> wrote in message
> 9307085f.0301250724.50d62323@posting.google.com">news:9307085f.0301250724.50d62323@posting.google.com...
> > "Peter Ibbotson" <spambox@ibbotson.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
>  news:<b0of1o$bp4$1$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk>...
> > > BTW does anyone have the original prodos "demo" disk for a //c? I
>  remember
> > > bootlegging it when I worked in a dealers to have a play with prodos on
>  my
> > > //e but it looked wrong 'cos there was no mousetext.
> >
> > Which one?  (I have all the //c demos, I think...)
> >
> > -uso.
> 
> Dunno. This would have been in a Apple Dealer circa 84 so it would have been
> very early, I'm sure the original disk is probably kicking around in my
> parents loft somewhere. It may even have been a system boot disk that came
> with a //c rather than a demo. I remember it was bootable on a //e but since
> there was no mousetext it all looked rather odd (but it was the first copy
> of ProDOS I played with and I had to hack out the //c ID code to get it to
> boot) Sadly the demo disks (Except the Apple Presents for the //e) don't
> appear to be around in any of the online archives. If you're set up to do
> easy ADT transfers then I'd love copies of what you have that will run on an
> original //c.

"System Utilities" perhaps?

I don't have ADT capabilities, but I do have real 140K disks I could
make.  System Utilities I think I have in //e+//c and //c-only
versions.  I don't have a lot of scratch 140K disks, but I'll see what
I can do about a disk set.  E-mail me (there's no blocking on my
e-mail address) and I'll see what I can do.

-uso.