Re: Elementary education software needed

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Ken & Ann Jones writes ...
> 
> Greetings-
>         My wife teaches 3rd grade for a small Catholic grade school.
> She has six Apple IIc & IIe machines in her classroom.  The software has
> gone through a series of previous owners and is in a state of general
> disarray and disrepair.
> 
> .... Much of the original media is no
> longer serviceable, and we only have 1 - 3 working sets.  This weekend I
> attempted to use the Apple System Utilities versions 2.1 & 3.1 to
> duplicate the disks.  I was not successfully, most times I received an
> I/O error stated that the disk could not be read from or written to. ....
>

     Many Apple II educational wares are copy-protected. For these, a
plain disk copier usually will not work.

 
>         Is there a resource to get second-hand copies of educational
> software or a utility which can duplicate these disks (strictly for use
> in her classroom)?


     You could try posting a Want To Buy ad on
comp.sys.apple2.marketplace . Local Apple II/Mac swap meets are another
place to try.

     A different approach is to obtain copiers which can copy your
disks. If you have a way to download and unShrink Apple II wares from
the net (like, maybe, you know a friend with an Apple IIgs and a PC) go
to Ground at ...

    
ftp://ground.isca.uiowa.edu/2/apple2/apple8/Utils

or

http://ground.isca.uiowa.edu/2/apple2/apple8/Utils

and download meccopy.sdk . Meccopy.sdk unShrinks to the Meccopy
diskette. This is a good utility for copying many MECC wares.


     Two good, general purpose, copy utilities are Copy II Plus v7.1 and
Locksmith v6. You can find these in Shrunk form on Asimov at ...

ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/appleII/images/disk.utils



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> please send replies directly to my e-mail address.

     Okay; a copy will be emailed.


Rubywand