Re: Big Apple Users Group 2.22.1999

[johnw@Southcoast.net (John Wolf)]

>Welcome to the Big Apple Users Group, a computer club for users of Apple
>II and compatible computers. 

Question.  Why did Apple dump their CLI system?  For example, PC's even
P2's still all have DOS on the ROM, and that is why you have extended
memory and that is why you need to know DOS to be a computer tech on a
PC.  But on the Mac things are different.  It seems to me that apple
dumped their CLI and rewrote their entire computer when they introduced
the mac in 1984.

> 
>This month we will demonstrate how to download e-mail from your Internet
>Service Provider to your Apple II desktop, and how to upload it back onto
>your ISP, so that your e-mail program can read it again.  This way you can
>get your e-mail files off your Internet Service Provider's host computer,
>and yet keep them for future reference.  We will also download e-mail in
>Apple II text or Apple Works word processing (AWP) format, so that you can
>read it in AppleWorks or other Apple II programs.  We will log onto my
>Unix shell account at Dorsai, my ISP, and use the pine e-mail program. 
> 
>We will also look at the BAUG web page Polly and I have been developing,
>but which is not yet up on a web site.  It is on my home directory at
>Dorsai, and can only be viewed within Dorsai. 
> 
>There will be a Q & A session when you may ask any questions or share any
>information or opinions about the Apple II. 
> 
>We will meet at 6:30 pm, Monday, February 22, 1999, at 345 West 58th
>Street, Apt 5L, next to the Coliseum, just west of Columbus Circle, in
>Manhattan. 
> 
>For further information, you may call our hot line at (212)606-2297.  We
>also post our announcements on comp.sys.apple2.usergroups and
>dorsai.announce.  If you have any questions, you may phone us at
>(718)499-7470 or (212)956-3634, or send us e-mail at baug@dorsai.org. 
> 
>We hope to see you there.  You are welcome whether you are a novice or a
>power user.  Apple II forever!