Re: I used an Apple //e in the classroom today

[schmidtd <schmidtd@my-deja.com>]

On Oct 19, 2:09 pm, BLuRry <brendan.rob...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Oct 19, 6:37 am, sicklittlemonkey <nick.westg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Oct 19, 2:11 pm, BLuRry <brendan.rob...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Y for Yellow -- didn't look so great in AppleWin.  oh well.  :->
>
> > It's lame, but looks fine on a real II monitor or my LCD TV.
>
> > BTW, has your daughter typed the keys [, ] or \ yet?
> > These will crash my copy of StickyBear ABC.
> > (I'd like to know if the original does this.)
>
> > The patch is to change the following byte on disk:
> > Track 1, sector E, byte C8: 1F -> 1A
> > (Surrounding bytes are: A8 E9 1F 10 42)
>
> > Cheers,
> > Nick.
>
> \ seemed to be ignored or handled as some other letters (X) -- [ and ]
> caused hangs, as did _
>
> Must not have had very protective coding...?

Which seems strange, given the target demographic. :-)