[net.micro.apple] /// compatibilty with prodos

willson@NRTC-GREMLIN.ARPA (Stephen Willson) (11/05/86)

	I remember reading in a recent issue (one or two months old) of
	A+ magazine about a card that goes into a /// and makes it compatible
	with a //c or //e, I forget which.

	Sincerely,

	Stephen Willson
	Northrop Research and Technology Center
	Palos Verdes, CA
	willson@nrtc.northop.com

dr@ski.UUCP (David Robins) (11/06/86)

In the Dec '86 (current) issue of A+,  Gary Little ansers this exact
question.

In summary, he says that the Apple ][ emulation on the Apple /// uses
memory that is necessary to run ProDos to instead run Applesoft.
Therefore, the basic Apple /// cannot run ProDos.

The recent availability of the III Plus IIe Card from Titan
Technologies makes it possible to run ProDOS and to emulate the //e.

A previous article in A+, July,'86, "Apple III Alter Ego" discusses
this hardware.

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