Re: An Apple IIe Newbie, Help please?

[pausch@saafNOSPAM.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <39479c7a@news.globalreach.net>, Dustin <dustin@haelnet.com> wrote:
 
 
> I just acquired an apple IIe system from a local school.  I plugged it in
> and turned it on and it seems to work.  I have 2    5.25 disk drives, but I
> have no software.  I am a new user to apple so I really know nothing about
> this system.  I have ordered some programs for the computer over the
> internet, but I would like to know if I could do anything with this system
> w/o software?
 
You can do absolutely nothing with it without software.
 
Fortunately for you, you're not completely without software: there
are about 10 KBYtes of software in the on-board ROM's: most likely
the Applesoft Basic interpreter, plus a machine-code monitor program.
 
> I see there are ports in the back for a casette deck, what's that about??
 
Connectors used to save and load programs on cassette tape.  The Applesoft
Basic commands "LOAD" and "SAVE" does this.
 
So what you can do with it, without floppies with software, is to
write your own Basic (or small machine language) programs, and save
then to cassette tape to load them back later.
 
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