Re: Apple IIe GUI

["Donald C. Lee" <coach41@pacbell.net>]

Hi Thomas,

    Can't tell you how popular GEOS was back then but the folks that made
it did come out with additional apps such as Geo Calc and Geo Publish, so
it must have done some sort of business!

    As for personal experience, I found GEOS used some years back in a
shop here in CA.  I have a 128K Apple IIe (just about the same as your
Laser) and while the program ran it didn't run all too well on 2 5 1/4
disk drives.  GEOS also had a tendencency to crash.  

    An additional headache for IIe owners was that you had to install a
tiny little interrupt card for the program to work properly.  It also
didn't help that I didn't have a MOUSE!  :D  That's my fault there but in
general, GEOS didn't work out all too well.  Appleworks is much better for
applications and ProDos for file handling.  

Don

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On Sun, 26 Aug 2001, it was written:

> was GEOS ever popular with the A2 crowd? I didn't have the resources on my
> Laser128 to ever run it back then - can't find much info about it on the A2
> platform (compared to the commodore version)...Has anyone tried to transfer
> their GEOS disks to 800k versions? my attempt would not boot! would like to
> have it for my IIc+ and compare it with the early GS/OS...
> 
> thomas
> 
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