Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!uwmcsd1!ig!jade!ucbvax!pro-colony.UUCP!dale From: dale@pro-colony.UUCP (System Operator) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: PC Transporter Message-ID: <8712070656.AA16505@crash.cts.com> Date: Sun, 6-Dec-87 23:23:13 EST Article-I.D.: crash.8712070656.AA16505 Posted: Sun Dec 6 23:23:13 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Dec-87 07:21:59 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: pnet01!pro-sol!pro-lumen!pro-colony!dale@nosc.MIL Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 84 My experiance with PC Transporter. First, my system setup: Slot Enhanced Apple //e Aux. RamWorks III 1 meg 1 Serial Pro (clock/serial card) 2 DataLink Modem 3 TransWarp 4 PC Transporter & 1 5.25" 360k drive 5 Apple UniDisk 3.5 6 Disk ][ Interface 7 Sider ][ 20 Meg w/ROM from ATS Installing the board: Ok, to install the PC Transporter (PCT for short) in my //e I had to first plug a piggyback cable onto my keyboard cable (not needed if you are using the option IBM keyboard), this was a little tricky as I already have a numeric keyboard piggybacked on to it. You need to make sure that this cable is plugged in all the way or you could have problems booting up your machine. The next cable to install is the speaker cable. In order to get IBM audio through the Apple speaker you must unplug the Apple speaker cable from the motherboard and plug it into the PCT. There is then a cable that goes from the speaker jack on the motherboard to the PCT. The last cable to install is the drive cable. This has a DB19 connector that goes into the back panel of the //e and plugs onto the back of the PCT. Getting it running: To get the PCT running, you must boot up the supplied (ProDOS) disk (it comes with both 3.5" and Apple 5.25"). There is a ProDOS system file that runs to 'turn the PCT on'. At this point you get the PCT title screen and it will then atempt to find a MS-DOS system disk. At this point you can press the space bar a couple of times, this will stop the boot procedure and take you to the PCT menu. Options on this menu are: Display the Keyboard map (it detects what machine you are running) Assign Drivers Exit menu and return to MS-DOS Re-Boot PCT (you must do this after changing drivers) Exit to ProDOS The first time you run the software it does an auto-configuration. It looks for the cards it can identify and loads the drivers for those cards. You can also manually install the drivers. ie: mouse driver, printer card drivers, clock drivers, etc. You can also assign the drives to anything from A to E. It supports 5 MS-DOS drives at a time. At this time you can set up a MS-DOS hard disk section on your hard disk. To do this, you must change your hard disk volume in the drive section to the ProDOS volume you want used for MS-DOS. If this ProDOS file does not already exist, it will prompt you for the size you want the MS-DOS 'hard disk' to be and it will create it. >From there, you need to boot into MS-DOS (not supplied) and use FDISK (not supplied) to format the 'hard disk'. Once you have MS-DOS installed on your hard disk you can boot into MS-DOS right from a ProDOS program selector or by running the file 'AEPC.SYSTEM' from BASIC. Using PCT under ProDOS: The PCT acts as an Apple II Memory Expansion card under ProDOS. There is about 12k of overhead used by the card for emulation. So with a 768k (640k IBM mode) board, you get about 755k of /RAMdisk. AppleWorks v1.3 & 2.0 will also use the card for extra desktop (no expansion software is provided like with the RamFactor card). You can also use the 360k IBM drive and the Platinum 3.5" Apple drive as ProDOS disks with the PCT. Final note: I tried to send a few replies to people that sent me e-mail, but I have gotten all of them back. Anybody have any suggestions as to why?!? I replied to the 'Reply to:' header in the message, but apparently I didn't get something right. I am a member of the ProLine Network and don't have a whole lot of experience using AARP or UUCP networks. Any help would be appreciated. dale UUCP: [ ihnp4 sdcsvax nosc ] !crash!pnet01!pro-sol!pro-colony!dale ARPA: crash!pnet01!pro-sol!pro-colony!dale@nosc.mil ProLine: dale@pro-colony pro-colony :-> 1 214 370-7056 - 300/1200 - 24 hrs