Apple 13-0010--001 User Manuals

Table of Contents

• 1. INSTALLATION

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• 1.1. Unpacking

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• 1.2. Connecting Drive Cables

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• 1.3. Installing Your Controller Card

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• 2. OPERATING

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• 2.2. Recommended Diskettes

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• 3. ENHANCING APPLE‘S APPLLE II DOS 3.3

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• 4.1. Using Multiple Drives

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• 4.2. Using a Single Drive

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• 5. SECTION 5

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• 6. SPECIFICATIONS

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• 6.1. Introduction

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• 6.2. Mechanical Dimensions

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• 6.3. Controller to Drive Interface

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• 6.4. Signal Interface

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• 6.4.1. Control Signals

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• 6.4.2. Data Signals

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• 6.5. Power Interface

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• 7. OPERATIONAL THEORY OF ELITE PRODUCTS

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• 7.1. Elite Drives

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• 7.1.1. General Operation

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• 7.1.2. Read/Write/Control Logic

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• 7.1.3. Drive Mechanism

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• 7.1.5. Read/Write Head

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• Elite Controller

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• 7.2.1. Introduction

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• 7.2.2. Booting

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• 7.2.3. Hardware

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• 7.2.4. EPROM Logic

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• 7.2.5. State Machine

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• 7.2.6. Addressahle Latch

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• 7.2.10. Power-On Reset

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• LEVEL MAINTAINENCE

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• Handling

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• Diskette Care and Handling

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• Back-up Diskettes

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• Write Protect

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• 9. ENHANCED DOS UTILITIES

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• 9.1. FORMAT Utility

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• 9.2. CLONE Utility

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• 9.3. PROFILE Utility

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• 9.4. ENHANCE Utility

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• 9.5. FID ENHANCE Utility

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• 10.ENHANCED CP/M UTILITIES

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• 10.1. Notation

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• 10.2. FORMAT Utility

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• 10.3. COPY Utility

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• 10.4. PROFILE Utility

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• 10.5. SGLDRIVE Utility

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• 10.6. ENHANCE Utility

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• 11. SECTION ll

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• DISKETTE DATA RECORDING

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• A.1. Introduction

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• A.2. Tracks and Sectors

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• A.3. Track Formatting

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• A.4. Fields

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• A.5. Gaps

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• A.5.1. Gap 1

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• A.5.2. Gap 2

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• A.5.3. Gap 3

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• A.6. Data Field. Encoding

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• A.7. Sector Interleaving

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• B. DOS TECHNICAL NOTES

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• B.2. File Manager Alterations

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• B.3. RWTS Alterations

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• C. CP/M TECHNICAL NOTES

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• C.1. Z80 BIOS Call Extensions

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• C.2. Drive Mapping Table

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• C.3. Seek Configuration Table

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• C.4. 6502. RWTS Alterations

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• D. APPENDIX D

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• 6-1: Elite One Characteristics

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• 6-2: Elite One Characteristics (cont.)

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• 6-3: Elite Two Characteristics

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• 6-4: Elite Two Characteristics (cont.)

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• 6-5: Elite Three Characteristics

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• 6-7: Elite Controller Characteristics

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• 8-1: Write Protecting Diskettes

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• A-1: FM Recording Pattern

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• A-2: FM Bit Cell

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• A-3: FM Byte Recording

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• A-4: Reading Data

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• A-5: Writing Data

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• A-6: Track Formatting

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• A-7: Self-Sync Byte

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• A-8: Read Syncronizing

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• A-9: Unsyncronized Write

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• A-10: Data Field Shifting

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• A-11: Address Field

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• A-12: Data Field

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• A-13: 4—plus—4 Encoding

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• A-14: 4—plus-4 Decoding

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• A-15: 5-plus-3 Encoding

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• 5-plus-3 Conversion Table

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• Data encoding

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• Data Decoding

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• 6—plus—2 Encoding

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• 6—plus—2 Conversion Table

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• Standard System Interleaves

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