I've done the transfer before on a IIe with a super serial card... pretty nice that
Apple put that into their firmware.
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From: Brian Lanning <brianlanning at gmail.com>
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tue, November 24, 2009 2:46:28 PM
Subject: Re: compact macs (was Re: Ten Year Rule)
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 2:38 PM, geoffrey oltmans <oltmansg at bellsouth.net>wrote:
Sweet! I knew about ADT, but not ADTPro. That looks
like the thing I need,
and it runs on OS X as well. Bonus.
Ya! Pay special attention to the IN#2 trick. You can attach the cable to
the modem port on a 2gs, or to a 2e with a super serial card, then type
in#2. It downloads ADTPro into the 2gs/2e without having to boot to any
floppy disk at all. No AppleDOS disk requried. Once it's up, you can use
it to send over an AppleDOS disk image as the first one to write. It's a
great way to bootstrap the computer from nothing, solving the chicken-or-egg
problem. There's a youtube video out there showing the procedure.
Maybe I should try to play with this tonight. :-)
brian