I was thoroughly impressed with this and it worked awesome. It does this in two steps the first step literally does a dump of assembly language into the built in monitor, runs the code which is really the ADTPro “client”…which then uses the same serial port to request disk images from the server software running on a Windows or OSX computer on the other side of the serial cable. After some research, I found a VERY neat program called ADTPro that actually bootstraps the Apple via the serial port. One challenge was that I had zero floppy disks for it, despite having the actual drives, so no way to actually boot it to anything. Once I got it working, I had to learn how to use it as that generation Apple is foreign to me. I had to replace a broken key and switch on the keyboard, and oddly enough, you can actually do so as each individual cherry switch is soldered on. That said, I do have a Apple IIe I got from Craigslist a few years ago, and gave it some love. I’ve had some experience with them over the years, including picking up various Macs, usually via dumpster dives and curb finds over the years, but they never appealed to me like the IBM compatibles did. In true Jeff fashion, I finally got around to building my Floppy Emu emulator, only a year or two or three after actually buying it, which emulates many various Apple and Mac floppy drives as well as even some hard drives.
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