Re: Dear Apple II Owner -- Letter in Red Book

[kinkapalms@yahoo.com.au]

On Friday, December 7, 2012 6:17:36 AM UTC+10, D Finnigan wrote:
> I saw an eBay auction for a red book that included a letter which I hadn't
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> seen before, and which does not appear to be copied online anywhere.
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> I reproduce it as follows:
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> Dear Apple II Owner,
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> This has been some year!  We conceived a product, announced it in
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> April, started shipping in June, and grew in sales each month over
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> the previous month.  We have only YOU to thank for the tremendous
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> acceptance of the Apple II.  The vote of confidence given us by your
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> purchase of a machine has allowed us to grow out of our present
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> 4,000 sq. ft. building and move into a new 20,000 sq. ft. building
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> in mid-January.  The new building is about 3 blocks away at 10260
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> Bandley Drive, Cupertino, CA 95014.
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> The year hasn't been without the normal problems of starting a
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> new company.  Most of you have been very patient with us and we
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> really appreciate your indulgence.  We feel that it will be well
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> worth it to you because you have purchased the ultimate in personal
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> computing capability.
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> We have just published a new hardware reference manual for the
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> Apple II.  This manual has been expanded to include additional
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> information on gow to use your machine.  Not all of it has been
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> typed and put into final form, but, we thought the information
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> was more important than the format at this point in time.  Of
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> particular importance to the first time computer user is a series
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> of games and listings you can study to see how others write
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> programs.  For the sophisticated hobbiest, se how to Read and
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> Save data to tape, program in High Resolution Graphics, or develop
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> tones.  For the hard core computerist, an annotated monitor and
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> dis-assembler listing, Binary Floating Point Firmware and
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> "Sweet 16", the 16-bit software simulated computer interpreter are there.
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> Note the new chapters in the manual from the Table of Contents
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> and review them.  New information may be found in Chapters 8
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> through 13 of Section A, 10 through 13 of Section B, 4 through
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> 7 of Section C and 4 through 6 of Section D.
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> There is another manual being completed now.  It is called the
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> Apple II Basic Primer.  This manual is written for the first
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> time computer use and will describe, in detail, how to use the
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> Apple II and write programs.  Availability is scheduled for
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> mid-March.
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> During the new year, watch your nearest dealer for new peripherals
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> and software availability.
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> -- 
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> ]DF$
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> Apple II Book: http://macgui.com/newa2guide/
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> Apple II Archive: http://macgui.com/vault/
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> Apple II Web & Blog hosting: http://a2hq.com/

Hey, cool letter.  Nothing like that is in any of my red books.

A couple of possible typos (or maybe they were in the actual letter ?):

* gow to use your machine
* hobbiest, se

All the best,

 Moose OMalley
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