Re: WANTED: Apple III info

[mouse@furry.misty.com (furry one)]

Mitchell Spector (spector@vax2.concordia.ca) wrote:
: In article dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) writes...

: 	Although I've heard the same about there being no character set
: in ROM, there still seems to be something there. When you cold-boot an
: Apple III, there's the built-in font for the Monitor I mentioned above,
: as well as when the "? Retry" message appears after the disk drive gives
: up scanning for a boot disk. If the keyboard lamp is burned out, a 
: diagnostic routine runs in a endless loop, of which also uses a built-in
: text font.

So THAT'S why it does that :)  I didn't even think that the burnt out
keyboard lamp would have anything whatsoever to do with computer operation.

: 	The Apple III Diagnostic disk actually has a digitized human 
: speech routine report the status of the machine using this DAC. If I 
: remember correctly it says, "I'm okay...system status normal!". :)
: There's no carrier noise, though it sounds like an 8-bit sound sample
: played at 11 KHz or so (ie, just a tad bit fuzzy).

Is there any place I can get (quickly, and for free, preferably) Apple
/// boot disks?  I rescued an old Apple /// from a school's dumpster,
and there wasn't any software for it.

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