Ooh, now I want one of those hard drives! I know I don't have one, though I do have a double 5.25 inch disk drive. So how do I get into Prodos on my IIGS? Does it exist in the machine or do I need to boot from a floppy or something? Is it like MS Dos as far as commands? And this may be slightly offtopic but I'm dying to know. Has anyone played around with Freedos? I wanna try it out but am not sure if it's screenreader accessible. I hope it is, cause they say it can handle alot of modern formats and it's constantly being worked on.
On 19/06/2009, Chris Blouch <cblo...@aol.com> wrote: > I remember playing with ProDOS a bit. It was very nice but came a bit > late in the golden era of the Apple II. The IIgs made extensive use of > it though because it could handle much larger volumes and had read > directories etc. My IIgs has a huge 5MB ProFile hard drive which was > about the size of a loaf of bread. You had to spin it up and wait about > 10 minutes for the self-check to complete before you could fire up the > IIgs. After that the GS was crazy fast when it wasn't try to run from > the 800K 3.5" floppy. I think that's part of the reason the IIgs didn't > get much love from Apple. It really was turning out to be what the Mac > should have been (and eventually became) with it's lower cost and nice > GUI. I suspect it was cannibalizing the high end expensive Mac II line. > > CB > > Josh de Lioncourt wrote: >> Ah yes, you're talking DOS 3.3, but by the mid '80's the Apple 2's had >> ProDOS, which was lightyears better, and included directories, copy >> commands, and more. Excellent times. >> >> I still have my Apple iiGS, and it still works pretty well. >> On Jun 18, 2009, at 12:34 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: >> >> >>> The original Apple IIs (before the IIgs) had their own DOS but it >>> was something Apple wrote from scratch and not a clone of CP/M or MS >>> DOS. It had the usual commands to catalog the contents of a disk or >>> execute a program. It was, like many things on the II, very small >>> fast and efficient but had some gaping holes such as the lack of a >>> copy command or folders. You also had to type out CATALOG every time >>> which got old. That's why I used the ampersand trick to make it do a >>> catalog. poke 1014,110 and then poke 1015,165 to make & == CATALOG. >>> So much typing saved that those pokes still stick in my head years >>> later. Yet I still forget the lunch I packed on the the table at >>> home when heading to work. Why is that? >>> >>> CB >>> >> >> >> > >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
