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help with transfferring software to an Apple IIe
- Subject: help with transfferring software to an Apple IIe
- From: yourIP@127.0.0.1 (SlickRCBD)
- Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 10:06:24 GMT
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
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I need some advice to pass on to somebody. One of my mother's
co-workers wanted a computer for her son to teach him how to type and to
do some basic word processing. She basically wanted it as a typewriter. I
made the recomendation that she pick up an Apple II from the storeroom at
the school they work with if possible.
SO she took my advice, and obtained what to me is a more or less standard
Apple IIe system, and I say standard because it's a configuration I've
seen more often than any other in all the schools I've been to.
It's specs are
Platinum Apple IIe with
128K RAM
Super Serial Card in slot 1
5.25" Disk controller card in slot 6
2 5.25" drives
ImageWriter II printer (hey, just like mine!)
My question is, how can this person get software to the computer at home
if she uses the internet at school? SHe has no other computer at home, and
hauling the system to school isn't practical. The computer doesn't have a
3.5" disk drive, let alone a hard drive, so I don't see any way of using
disk images. As for ShrinkIt archives, it's theoretically possible, but
without a modem I don't see how she can get them to the Apple.
At school she has access to a wide variety of iMacs, PowerMacs (mostly
older pre-g3s, most of the G3s and G4s are iMacs), and Gateways with a
high-speed internet connection.
With this setup, NONE of the methods I use for getting software off the
internet will work. My oldest and most commonly used method is to put it
on a 3.5" disk and use "sneaker net" to get the stuff to my own Apple
IIGS. However, the Apple IIe in question has no 3.5" drive.
I also occasionally use my serial ports and my printer's cabel to make a
mini-LAN and use the built-in AppleTalk. But even if the Super Serial Card
could do AppleTalk like that, bringing the IIE in to her classroom is not
a simple undertaking, and there is no other computer in her house to hook
it up to, So that's out.
Any suggestions, other than to download to a 3.5" disks, give it to my
mother to bring home to me, and have my mother ask me to do all the work
of decompressing and putting the stuff on 5.25" disks in a usable format?