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Post #1 by bigmessowires
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryHardware
Post DateSun, 15 Mar 2015 - 15:07
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/using-disk-ii-on-the-first-apple-ii-models.1528/
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From what I've read, the first Apple II floppy drive (the Disk II) wasn't invented until about six months after the release of the Apple II - so the computer's ROM code wouldn't have had any support for loading data from a floppy disk. If you owned one of those first Apple II's and later bought a Disk II, how did the computer know how to use it? Did the Disk II also come with a replacement ROM chip for the computer's logic board? Or does the Apple II somehow execute code that's stored in ROM on the Disk II controller card?

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