> I used to have an Apple 2 E, whith Prodos and basic.system and startup.bas
>on it, it was prety cool.
Yeah, I used to have one of those critters - next door neighbour gave it to me
instead of throwing it out in a garage clear-out. My father came back from
work the day after and said that his technical department had just thrown a
whole heap of Apple ][s and related items into a skip, but he managed to bring
back a copy of ProDOS and the manual for it... Strange OS, but it was fun to
fiddle with.
> Stil the apple was realy neat for experimenting whith basic, it booted in
>to applesoft or basic, or if you had a 2E clone ms soft basic, I think.
If there was no disk controller it would boot to Applesoft BASIC, if there was
it would seek Drive 0 and try and boot Applesoft DOS off it, then dump you in
BASIC. You could always hit Break at the BIOS screen to get straight to BASIC
though.
> Finding an old apple 2e is another project, some whear on the back
>burner for now.
Mine's in a friend's garage now, I'm still trying to get it back.
> It didn't have a hard drive, instead it booted off of a 3.5 inch flopy, I
>baut new from centrol.software whith universial disk controller card so I
>could plug a 5.25 inch flopy in as well as a 3.5 inch flopy.
Nach! That's *modern*. You want one of the original 160Kb drives with the
twin-drive controller. Nifty as anything, *and* you could hook 16 drives up to
it if you had enough cards. My ProDOS manual said something about hard-drive
add-ons, but I never found one. Pity. I never did get around to booting CP/M
off it either...
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