Re: Apple II (not + or e) on ebay and a question..

[Eric Smith <eric-no-spam-for-me@brouhaha.com>]

Ron Maxwell <rmaxwell@nycpinball.com> writes:
> My big question is what is the difference between an Apple II+ and and
> Apple II?
> The keyboards, case and processor, are the same.  From what I have read
> no Autostart in Rom and no FP Basic in Rom.  Is there any other real
> differences?

The Apple II has Integer BASIC and the original monitor.
The Apple II+ has Applesoft BASIC (floating point) and the Autostart monitor.

> Wile on the subject what is the Autostart?

The autostart monitor autostarts.  It will try to boot a disk if there
is a controller present, and normally enters one of the BASIC interpreters
when you hit reset.

With the original monitor, the machine always resets to a monitor
prompt.  Including at reset, unless you have a really old Apple II, in
which case there's no hardware power-up reset and the machine powers up
in an undefined state with a screen full of garbage.