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From: fiddler%concertina@Sun.COM (Steve Hix)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Apple II+ and /// questions
Message-ID: <128402@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 27 Nov 89 18:21:06 GMT
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In article <8911251502.AA07254@zappa.UMD.EDU>, lyman@ZAPPA.UMD.EDU (Lyman Hurd) writes:
> I have been offered aan Apple III with 5M hard disk, and
> have the following questions:
> 
> 2. What software is available, preferably for nominal cost, for a III?
> Also has anyone ever tried running Softerm on a III?  The CPU is being
> given to me free, so I don't want the software costs to skyrocket, but
> I will move my base of operations over to it if it can be made usable.

Contact Sun Remarketing of Logan, UT.  (No relation to Sun Microsystems,
btw.)  They still sell and service the Apple///.  Last time I heard (a few
weeks ago) they were selling a /// system including computer, monitor, and
software for around $300.)  They carry most of the interesting commercial
/// software, as well as some that never made it to market before the ///
was discontinued.

> 3. Failing the ability to make the III useful, is there a way to put
> its (Apple) hard disk on the II under Prodos.  If so how cheaply can
> this be accomplished?  Once again rememberthis is a II+ (not e or
> c...) and an old one at that.

Sure.  You need an Apple][ ProFile interface card.  You might have some
problems running things, though, since it requires Prodos (though you
*can* run it under Apple// Pascal).  The problem is that DOS 3.3 don't
know how to handle things bigger than a Disk][, roughly.  Maybe someone
knows a way around that.

If you *do* get it working, you'll find the beast is *really* fast to
boot from the hard disk.  Better to run from the ///, if you don't
have a //e.

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