23 Apr
2005
23 Apr
'05
3:27 p.m.
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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