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Re: Just picked up Apple IIe
On 14 Apr 1997 16:14:13 GMT, "Barry Rees" <Barry.Rees@prodigy.net>
wrote:
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>Jon H. <rigby@ptd.net> wrote:
>> I just picked up one of those platinum cased Apple IIe's. $30 for the
>> platinum cased computer with 2 5.25 drives and Color composite monitor.
>> It's great. Actually, does anyone know where I can get a newer version
>> of AppleWorks? I have 2.0.
>Ok, Scantron Quality Computers sells the
>latest version of AppleWorks - v5.1, but I am not sure if you can get it on
>5 1/4 media. Even if you could get 5 1/4 install disks, I don't know about
>running it off of 5 1/4 disks. Maybe someone else could comment on that.
I wouldn't recommend that. AW 5 requires 256K RAM, and you'd probably
be in for a nasty amount of disk switching. With some hacking, it may
run very well from 4-6 5.25" drives...
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