Re: Please Help to Indentify this Apple Stuff

[wily@svpal.svpal.org (Paul Creager)]

Thomas Krahn (tkrahn@king.igs.net) wrote:
: First of all,  Is this the right newsgroup?

Yup!.  Consider yourself smarter than all the mac-heads that post here.  :)

: decription, computer 1:
: normal apple casing.  Name plate on top cover is a thick brown sticker on a 
: larger shiny aluminum plate. It has an apple picture w/a straight rainbow
: colours to the left of the apple, and the word "apple" on the right... 
: ...It says "apple ][" when I start it up.

That's an Apple ][.  If it goes to the * prompt when you turn it on, it 
the original Integer Basic Apple ][.  If it goes to the ] prompt, then 
it's an Apple ][+.  The light is not a button, it's just a "power on" 
indicator.  No support for lower case w/o modification.

: ...cards marked "Z80"

That's a Z80 card.  :)  It's purpose was for running CP/M programs.

: -Something called "apple //  CP/M 44k ver.2.20B"   

The operating system (CP/M) for the Z80 card.

: -"Applewriter"  - Seems to be something like a really bad wordprocessor?

Actually it's a pretty good word processor.  As I recall, upper case was 
shown in inverse video (if you didn't have the lower case chip).  I still 
miss the "glossary" feature, something that's lacking in today's software.
 
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