Apple IIe Card: Add Hard Disks, Making Floppy Disks and Much More!

[Retronaut]

Apple IIe Card: Add Hard Disks, Making Floppy Disks and Much More!
The Apple IIe card, the last great hoorah for Steve Wozniaks and Steve Jobs love child, is in my Macintosh LC475, can I add multiple large hard disks to it? Can I write out 3.5" AND more importantly 5.25" floppy disks are well? How do we easily move data onto these disks? We look at the Floppy Emu and CiderPress II. Lets dive in and make the most of this wonder card from Apple.

 

[bibilit]

Hi, yes you can add multiple HDs, using the rear scsi connector.

One of the drives can be a Prodos formated drive. At some point, I used DSK2File to write 5,25 floppy disks.

DSK2FILE and NIB2FILE

Will write an image file to 5,25 floppy. Never done to a 3,5 one. At some point, I had two 3,5 drives internally (mine is inside a LC with both inner connectors)

 

[Retronaut]

Hi, yes you can add multiple HDs, using the rear scsi connector.

One of the drives can be a Prodos formated drive. At some point, I used DSK2File to write 5,25 floppy disks.

DSK2FILE and NIB2FILE

Will write an image file to 5,25 floppy. Never done to a 3,5 one. At some point, I had two 3,5 drives internally (mine is inside a LC with both inner connectors)

Not sure what you mean by two 3.5" drives internally in an LC? How would the 2nd drive fit?
In the video linked above, I am focussing on using a FloppyEmu + physical drives to make the disks. Bear in mind I am NOT an old time Apple II person. So some of the things I discovered whilst playing with my IIe card are not exactly news to anyone with a lot of Apple II experience. For example, I had no idea ProDos disks have a specific order to files, which defines in what order files are loaded. So this video is actually useful for those with ZERO experience with Apple II's. I think its good to do things this way, giving more of a ground up guide invites others in. Its how I learn to use these old systems often, watch a video and learn some of the basics.

 

[bibilit]

The first LC model was available with two floppy drives and can be sold without hard drive.

Macintosh LC - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[Retronaut]

The first LC model was available with two floppy drives and can be sold without hard drive.

Macintosh LC - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Ah, I see