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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
