Re: I'm new to Apple II - What can I do?

["william strutts" <wrstrutts1@nospam.home.com>]

It sounds like an Apple IIplus clone that is why you have a language
card installed. An Apple II+ came with 48k of ram and the language
card gave it the additional 16k of ram for the maximum 64k.

You will need to get a disk controller card and a disk drive
to make it useful. You can get them at a Thrift Store really cheap
or bid on them on eBay.  Your machine would be from the early
80's since the Apple IIe came out in 1983 and that didn't require
a language card since it could be directly upgraded to 64k. Is
80 column card in a slot along the back of the machine or is
it on special card slot next to the power supply? I don't know
the clones well so I may be off here.

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"Gary Harrison" <garyharrison@nospamidx.com.au> wrote in message
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> I've just been given an Apple II clone (Unitron), and apart from using one
> briefly at school back in the early eighties, I've never had much
experience
> with these machines.
>
> The machine has no disk-drives, only cassette connections on the back.
> In the expansion slots it has a "language card", a serial card, and an
> 80-column card.
> Also supplied with the machine were three ROM chips marked 1, 2 and 3. I
> have a small expansion card with three sockets - this was not attached to
> the computer though. What are these?
> The machine powers up and displays "Apple ][" before giving me a "]"
prompt.
>
> Simple BASIC programs I type in work OK, but I don't know the syntax of
the
> more advanced BASIC commands (graphics? saving/loading?).
>
> I'm assuming I really need a disk-drive to do anything "useful" with it?
>
> What is a "language card" anyway? Where can I find info on Apple's BASIC?
> How old is my machine exactly?
>
> Sorry about all the questions... Thanks in advance
>
>