Dear Apple II Owner -- Letter in Red Book

[D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com>]

I saw an eBay auction for a red book that included a letter which I hadn't
seen before, and which does not appear to be copied online anywhere.

I reproduce it as follows:


Dear Apple II Owner,

This has been some year!  We conceived a product, announced it in
April, started shipping in June, and grew in sales each month over
the previous month.  We have only YOU to thank for the tremendous
acceptance of the Apple II.  The vote of confidence given us by your
purchase of a machine has allowed us to grow out of our present
4,000 sq. ft. building and move into a new 20,000 sq. ft. building
in mid-January.  The new building is about 3 blocks away at 10260
Bandley Drive, Cupertino, CA 95014.

The year hasn't been without the normal problems of starting a
new company.  Most of you have been very patient with us and we
really appreciate your indulgence.  We feel that it will be well
worth it to you because you have purchased the ultimate in personal
computing capability.

We have just published a new hardware reference manual for the
Apple II.  This manual has been expanded to include additional
information on gow to use your machine.  Not all of it has been
typed and put into final form, but, we thought the information
was more important than the format at this point in time.  Of
particular importance to the first time computer user is a series
of games and listings you can study to see how others write
programs.  For the sophisticated hobbiest, se how to Read and
Save data to tape, program in High Resolution Graphics, or develop
tones.  For the hard core computerist, an annotated monitor and
dis-assembler listing, Binary Floating Point Firmware and
"Sweet 16", the 16-bit software simulated computer interpreter are there.

Note the new chapters in the manual from the Table of Contents
and review them.  New information may be found in Chapters 8
through 13 of Section A, 10 through 13 of Section B, 4 through
7 of Section C and 4 through 6 of Section D.

There is another manual being completed now.  It is called the
Apple II Basic Primer.  This manual is written for the first
time computer use and will describe, in detail, how to use the
Apple II and write programs.  Availability is scheduled for
mid-March.

During the new year, watch your nearest dealer for new peripherals
and software availability.

-- 
]DF$
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