Okay, where to begin:
I have several ///'s but no plus, so needless to say, im jealous:)
The AA's are factory, they go to the clock circuit to retain the time, some
later regular ///'s had this as well. {clone pc's use this method as well,
like old DTK's}
The profile drive is more tricky, I have one too and it works. It is not a
bootable device, you need a "catalyst" disk, that's the disk that runs the
card and initialized the drive. It has some kind of menu system you edit
to bring up like a dosshell kinda of thing to select items, This I havent
figured out yet, when I go into the "catalyst editor" i get a file now
found. Mine came loaded and working.
I have alot of original software and docs for the ///, but not the ///+,
but if I know my history right, they ///+ was just basically the version
that worked :)
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> From: Zane H. Healy <healyzh_at_ix.netcom.com>
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
> Subject: Apple III+ questions
> Date: Saturday, September 27, 1997 12:01 AM
>
> Hi,
> Got a Apple III+ yesterday, not sure if it works, haven't powered it up
> yet, it was such a mess that I'm working on cleaning it up first.
>
> I just cracked the case open and notice that it has three AA batteries in
a
> battery holder between the floppy drive and the power supply. They're in
> front of where the cards go. Finding AA's strike me as more than a
little
> odd! Is this a user modification?
>
> Also I've been lucky enough to get a Profile drive with it, and the
> controller card is in the computer. As I've said, I've not powered the
> system up yet, is there anything here I should be aware of. Does it boot
> off of the HD or just the floppy? I do have a boot floppy, but I've no
> idea if it's any good.
>
> Zane
>
>
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Received on Sat Sep 27 1997 - 08:41:50 BST