Subject: Re: question re: mac LC //e card... Path: lobby!newstf02.news.aol.com!portc01.blue.aol.com!howland.erols.net!news-out.digex.net.MISMATCH!dca1-hub1.news.digex.net!intermedia!dca1-nnrp1.news.digex.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Frank Townsend" Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 References: <20000630230902.02041.00001535@ng-cg1.aol.com> Lines: 39 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Message-ID: <1it75.83$RW9.524432@dca1-nnrp1.news.digex.net> Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 21:22:05 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.196.248.21 X-Complaints-To: abuse@iamworld.net X-Trace: dca1-nnrp1.news.digex.net 962486525 151.196.248.21 (Sat, 01 Jul 2000 17:22:05 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 17:22:05 EDT Organization: Intermedia iAmerica - http://www.iamworld.net Yes, the IIe card should be able to run software like a real IIe (it *is* a real IIe albeit with virtual slots). Yes, the IIe session can be hidden, and programs can be run on the LC Yes, diskette volumes can be saved to the hard drive if a part of the hard drive has a ProDOS partition. Regards, Frank Townsend I.M. Late wrote in message <20000630230902.02041.00001535@ng-cg1.aol.com>... >a friend gave me a working mac lc II with the file://e card AND the cable. i >executed the file://e icon and got a 40 column apple // screen. my questions are: >does it work just like a file://e? any limitations? >is it prodos only, or can it do 3.3 also? >is it possible to switch back to the finder and do other stuff while the file://e >session is running in the background? >can diskette volumes be easily saved to the hard drive? >anything else about it i need to know? >im sure apple has all of this in their TIL, but its so bloody hard to find >anything in there. > > >D.B. Young. Team OS/2! >-->this message printed on recycled disk space<-- >hurry, hurry! step right up! see the computers you used as a kid! >www.nothingtodo.org > >Delete the obvious (Aolsucks) to reply. >