Morning,
What's the normal procedure to boot a floppy from an Apple ][? I'm just taking
a look at my Mitac [1] clone (with a view to selling it) and got curious as to
whether it'd boot a standard Apple DOS system disk.
If powered up with a drive connected the spindle motor starts and it'll step
the drive head back to track 0 - but nothing more.
On the one hand, it's entirely possible that the machine isn't a close enough
clone to work with standard Apple DOS (that wouldn't surprise me at all, in
fact) - but on the other, maybe I'm just missing some standard key combination
to magically boot from the drive... (whilst I've got an Apple ///, I've never
used an Apple ][ in my life)
I can hit CTRL-reset and the machine will drop to BASIC; is there a normal way
of booting (or at least bringing up a dir) a floppy from BASIC on a genuine ][?
[1] Quite an impressive machine. Has some flavour of far-east legends on the
key fronts, as well as regular ASCII (we had a discussion about it on here
once, but there were conflicting opinions on what language it actually was).
Built-in disk controller, joystick port, tape, TV modulator, 80-column card.
There's a little backplane which can be plugged into the machine's expansion
port and gives you five Apple ][ card slots, too.
cheers
Jules