Re: Apple II/e newbie - please help

["John King" <joki@eskimo.com>]

Hi,

I am sort of a newbie myself and I expect others will reply to your
questions soon.

Meantime, track down a program called ADT122 which is designed to transfer
disk images ( *.dsk files) between a PC and an Apple 2. Guess the best way
to find the stuff is to search the net using GOODLE for Apple stuff.
Eventually you'll find references to sites which contain some emulators and
the disk images they use to run programs. An FTP site called ASIMOV has
about everything, but recently it went down, they have a working mirror at:
ftp://mirror.apple.asimov.net/

Another site which is useful:  ftp://ground.ecn.uiowa.edu/



One of those should have ADT122, and a lot more. ProDos is the most recent
OS, Dos 3.3 is older and has a lot of old, good stuff for it. You'll want
disk images of both of those & Copy II Plus (disk utility) at least.

You will need a "proper" serial cable (described in the file), a PC which
runs DOS, an Apple 2 (not sure which variants it will run on, mine was an
enhanced 2e), a super serial card, and one 5 1/4 apple drive.

This was how I made my first disks a few months ago. It worked well for me.

If you don't have a serial card there is an article which shows how to make
a cable connecting the PC to Apple 2 via the Apple 2 gameport, but I have
not tried that (it is another program to transfer files, not ADT, AFAIK).
Instead, I just bought a serial card on ebay. They are easy to find on ebay
and shouldn't cost more that $6ish dollars (before shipping).




"Starflight" <none@none.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I purchased an Apple II/e a few days ago at a garage sale, and I know
> absolutely nothing about it.  There was no documentation with the
> system, nor was there any software.  I have no idea how to tell what
> hardware is in this system, but it did come with a 5.25 floppy drive,
> a Zenith Data Systems monitor/screen, a joystick and a Prowriter
> printer.  I have built many PC's, but have never worked with anything
> quite this old, nor have I worked with an Apple system before.
>
> Can someone get me started in the right direction to finding technical
> information on this system as well as information on how to use it and
> what software, kind and type of floppies it uses, etc...  Any
> information would be appreciated as the only thing I know how to do is
> turn the power button on and off.