DOS 3.3 and ProDOS were both loaded up from media. There is no OS burned into the chips of the computer. GSOS was built on top of ProDOS if I remember right but was a real 16-bit implementation as the IIgs was a fancy 16 bit computer. I think ProDos was a lot more Unix like than DOS like. They seemed to like to keep you out of typing commands much which was a bit annoying.
Here's a ProFile on eBay but the asking price is a crazy $400. http://cgi.ebay.com/Apple-ProFile-Hard-Drive-for-Apple-III-A9M0005_W0QQitemZ200345537716QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item2ea5864cb4&_trksid=p3286.m20.l1116 CB Tiffany D wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
