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Re: ProDOS version recommendation

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Jeff Blakeney wrote:
> On 2024-02-27 3:45 p.m., Mark Wade wrote:
>> Still don't know what to do with a .po file though.
> 
> A .PO file is an uncompressed disk image where the data is stored a 
> sequential ProDOS blocks (ie. block 0, block 1, all the way to block 279 
> for a standard 5.25" floppy).  There are programs like DiskMaker that 
> can write that data back to a floppy disk and I believe there is even a 
> IIgs program that can let you use that file like a RAM disk (I think the 
> program is called MountIt but it has been a very long time since I've 
> needed to do such a thing).
> 
> I have a CFFA3000 in my IIgs so I just use it to mount disk images as 
> drives and copy things off them if I want.
>

Oh, that rings a bell now, .po and disk images. Thank you.

Re: CFFA3000, I had never heard of that, looking at ReActiveMicro it sounds
real nice. I'm still using a SCSI HD and Zip disk in my IIgs and another
with an Alltech Electronics/Parsons Engineering card. Then there's my //e I
just replaced a failed CMS HD with an Apple HD pulled from some Mac or other
from eBay, oh and the //c.  That they all work brings a real smile to me.

I'll try mounting that ProDOS v4.2.3 .po file with KEGS or Bernie ][ the
Rescue and see if I can move it to the //e. ProDOS v 2.0.3 doesn't know 
2/29/2024; thinks it's Wednesday.  I know there has been talk of date tables
or some such in ProDOS but I don't remember what or where. Nothing really
earth-shattering , just something else to think of.

-- Mark Wade

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