Re: Apple II Newbie

[CUTblakeney@home.com (Jeff Blakeney)]

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 =
>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 =
>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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