Subject: Re: Hardware Project
From: Cap Weir <cap@thegrid.net>
Date: Wed, Nov 11, 1998 21Ç17@
Message-id: <364A6F6E.46D6C5B6@thegrid.net>

I'll tell you why to build a ROM drive..... IT DON'T MOVE...
  I've been involved with Apple II computers, controlling machines
starting back in 1977 (tape drives)... and the bigest headache by far is
the boot.... When the guy walkes into his shop on monday morning and the
disk drive is turning 'cause he had a power failure and the disk did not
boot.... that is when the ROM drive would have been great... I've run
into this problem on machines that have made that have an apple as an
imbedded controller. I started to use the apples 'cause they had
graphics, when early PLC's could only blink lites or ring bells....
 Please keep us posted on the progress of the drive....... Im new to the
group.. did the original ROM drive boot DOS 3.3?
   CAP