Re: Apple II Newbie

["CybrSlider" <cybrslider@home.com>]

Thanks Jeff and Phoenyx for the help. I've got a serial card on the way. I
think I'll go that route. Got any suggestions for a good cheap Terminal
program I can buy somewhere already on an Apple II formatted disk?

David

Jeff Blakeney <CUTblakeney@home.com> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 11 Jun 2000 09:06:38 GMT, "CybrSlider" <cybrslider@home.com>
> wrote:
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> >    I recently aquired two Apple systems, a IIe and a IIgs. I've never =
> >owned Apple products before and I need some help please. I have a bunch =
> >of hardware questions but first and foremost is software. I have only a =
> >ProDos 8 system disk. I was wondering if there are any PC utilities that
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> >will read/write to apple format disks so that I could download some =
> >PD/freeware stuff for use on these systems.
>
> The PC 5.25" and 3.5" drives cannot be used to create standard Apple
> II disks.
>
> >I also aquired a ram card. I =
> >don't have the machine here (or the card) but I think it's an Applied =
> >Engineering card. It has 1 meg of memory. More specifics will be needed =
> >to answer this question I'm sure but I thought I'd throw it out anyway. =
> >Does that card go in the auxillory slot or one of the other slots? If it
=
> >goes in a different slot, which one?
>
> Yes, we definitely need more specifics.  Applied Engineering made
> auxillary slot, regular slot and IIgs memory expansion slot RAM cards.
> We'd need to know which one it is to tell you which machine it is for
> and which slot(s) it can be used in.
>
> >Thanks for the help! I look forward =
> >to using these systems. I like to program on retro machines and I'd =
> >really like to get these two systems going and also possibly aquire some
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> >programming manuals/books that are Apple specific. Thanks again!
>
> If you are looking for programming related books and software or need
> to get the most recent operating systems on disk for your machines,
> check out the ByteWorks web site at:
>
>      http://www.byteworks.org
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