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I don't know if these are MFS or not; if so, you'll need to go a ways back in Mac OS to be able to read them. Just fire up your Mac Plus and it'll be able to. Old Macs with built-in floppy drives should be able to read it. The older, the better. ;-)

I haven't seen the software out there for download. I do see that VintageMicros has kits for sale - clearly duplicates the hardware you already have, but maybe he could be convinced to image the disk for you/us... http://cgi.ebay.com/5-MB-Apple-Profile-Low-Level-Format-Kit-Tested-/200525514577

Lucky for you, since you won't have to transfer a floppy by audio connection... there isn't a RamFAST SCSI utility disk. It's all in the ROM on your card. Take a look at the manual (hopefully you have a Rev D card...) on Asimov: ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/documentation/hardware...

Excellent. Problem identified. Yes, that's exactly it. You can make all the connections at one side or the other, of course. Just make the connections together wherever it's convenient.

Ok, and I believe they're unrelated to each other. Note that an Apple printer cable is in fact a null modem: the transmit and receive lines are crossed. That's as opposed to a modem cable, which would have tx-tx and rx-rx. When connecting to an IIe card, you need a null modem cable. And...

That was a message it used to give when the disk it was trying to read was unformatted. Can you INIT the disk first? OSX users have had a spotty history with Prolific drivers. Hopefully they've improved. You can see some of the stories in the ADTPro forum...

Sorry, it's just that this kind of post comes up from time to time. "I found the Holy Grail - what's it do?" Surely you can see how this must look. To address your point about software, there's not software available on twiggy disks anywhere. There are several disk images in digital form...

Not to put too fine a point on it, but... pics or it didn't happen. ;-)

Can you break in with the keyboard attached? If so, what does PRINT PEEK(64447) give you? if PRINT PEEK(64447) returns 255, you have an original IIc (ROM revision '255'). if PRINT PEEK(64447) returns 0, you have an Apple IIc with UniDisk 3.5 inch drive support (ROM revision '0'). if PRINT...

It's dead. It should beep and the drive should start up. You might want to open the machine up and clean it up, unseat/reseat any socketed chips, and generally see what might be amiss. But it's not working as-is.

I am quite serious. I have the OS manual in PDF form. I'm still not sure how to get low-level access to the drive, though - most everything in LOS is file-oriented.

None. There wasn't a marketing relationship, either - they were not seen as competing for the same business market. They're both engineering marvels. A little bit off the mark in different ways, but they aren't "bad."

I have always wanted a twiggy-driven machine. I'd probably pay 5k for it, too. I'd like to port ADTPro to the Lisa. :beige:

Nope, if the reserve isn't met - it didn't sell.

Prophylaxis on the power supply is definitely in order. The big filter cap (the rectangular one) is the one that most often goes bang.

That's exactly right. All devices needed a device driver to communicate. Console, Floppy, and some combination of serial or parallel printer were fairly standard. Profile drivers were pretty common too. You can use the System Config Program on the Utilities disk to move drivers onto and off...

Nope. That's ok... it doesn't really matter. The only thing that the III can boot from is the internal floppy disk drive. I don't know of any software that is amenable to data transfer between the III and the old Mac crowd. Well, there is MacADT that does the usual .DSK transfers, now that I...

That may well be, but they won't help your III any. ;-) That's true - and can lead to much greater accumulation of ancient hardware at low-low prices. :-)

Ah, you need more than a disk... you need an Apple II and a disk drive. :-) Wouldn't that be fun? Well, you would need to find or buy some Single or Double Sided/Double Density (DS/DD) not High Density (HD) floppies. Then, with a serial cable in hand, you can bootstrap the III and transfer...

Not necessarily. If you have any other Apple II equipment, you can just create your own replica boot disks. The disk images are on apple3.org, and the disk transfer software (ADT or ADTPro) will connect between the Apple II and the modern computer. But even armed with boot diskettes... until...