On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Louis Schulman wrote:
#> > I wonder if the 'Cold Boot Adapter'
links to that KONAN card and
adds
#> > a hard disk to the Apple. The Cold Boot part meaning the Apple can
#> > boot from the hard disk without needed a boot floppy. I am
probably
#> > wildly off, though
#>
#> I was thinking something similar actually.
#
#In which case I should start looking at the EPROMs on these boards).
This seems unlikely. Apple IIs never needed a boot floppy, they just
booted from the first recognizable disk controller, starting at slot 7
and working down. In the absence of a recognizable controller, they
went into Basic. If you wanted to change the boot drive, you just
changed the order of the cards. It was also possible to select a boot
drive with a selector program, or even by issuing a command from Basic.
But anything is possible, I suppose.
It's possible there were hard drives that required a boot disk, rather
than booting off the drive itself. I've seen dumber things :)
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