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Hi! I'm not sure if this request got to you the first time, so my apologies if it's a repeat... I was wondering if you still have one of the cables for the Apple DOS card that you mention on your website? If so, how much do you want for one? thanks... <<<john>>>

Neither OS will read the other's disks without a converter program. There was a utilities disk (bundled with the //e) that included such a program, but it apparently had bugs with large files or something like that. A better program would be any version of Copy II Plus. All the ProDOS/DOS 3.3 conversion programs I know of run under ProDOS. Oh yeah, ProDOS handles 3.5" disks and hard drives without messy hacking. Also note that there have been different versions of DOS 3.3 (that is, the version number stopped changing but the program got patched). -- Derek

On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Arfon Gryffydd wrote: ProDOS added subdirectories and other more "modern" OS features, like device drivers that could be plugged into the OS. It also allowed more flexibility in accessing the files, so you could read binary files into BASIC programs just like a textfile. DOS 3.3 was much easier and simpler to work with, and I prefered it because of that. For one thing it allowed 30 character filenames and allowed spaces in the filename and other odd characters. ProDOS limits you to 15 characters, and only allows characters, digits and the period (and perhaps underscore and the AT symbol). This was annoying if you came What OS you use really depends on what you're going to do with it. Like I said in the previous message, any games will always come with the OS already on the disk so they are self-booting. The better word processors (like AppleWorks) were ProDOS based. Oh yeah, one last thing. The biggest gripe about ProDOS: it didn't come with a disk format command. DOS 3.3 had INIT. With ProDOS you had to use a disk utility. Major bummer. Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't rub the lamp if you don't want the genie to come out. Coming this October 2-3: Vintage Computer Festival 3.0! See http://www.vintage.org/vcf for details! [Last web site update: 05/25/99]