Re: An Apple IIe Newbie, Help please?

[Ralph Glatt <mairsil@my-deja.com>]

In article <39479c7a@news.globalreach.net>,
  "Dustin" <dustin@haelnet.com> wrote:
>
> I just acquired an apple IIe system from a local school.  I plugged it in
> and turned it on and it seems to work.  I have 2    5.25 disk drives, but I
> have no software.  I am a new user to apple so I really know nothing about
> this system.  I have ordered some programs for the computer over the
> internet, but I would like to know if I could do anything with this system
> w/o software?  I see there are ports in the back for a casette deck, what's
> that about??

Software used to be stored on cassettes, not disks, hence the cassette port.
One thing you could try is hooking a cassette player up to the cassette port,
then go to your local library to see if they have any books with simple Apple
// programs in them. Then you could try them out, and store them on cassette.


Ralph Glatt



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