Apple // Questions

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On Sat, 23 Apr 2005, Ronald Wayne wrote:

> Yeah, I've been thinking about going this route too.  It even sounds
> like the CF adapter will run on unenhanced IIe's these day.  But I've
> always felt weird using an Apple II with a hard drive.  Sure it can be
> done, and there are many ways of doing so, but most of the 8-bit
> software fits on a couple of 180 kB floppies.  As for the games, some
> of which use many more diskettes, it would be surprising if many of
> them would run from a hard drive.

I've run my Apple //e with a Sider ][ 20Meg hard drive since, oh, 1989 or
so.  What's wrong with running a hard drive with a ][?

ProDOS was made with large capacity disk drives in mind.  Many
applications from the ProDOS era onwards are made to run from a volume,
which is not necessarily a disk.

By the //gs era, hard drives were common.  Most applications were allowed
to be loaded to hard disk if you had one.

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