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Re: How to boot 16k program?



Mark Percival (mark.REMOVE.percival@videotron.ca) wrote:

: I was lucky enough to get into the game in 1979.  A friend of mine
: bought one of the first Apple II+'s sold in Montreal with the money he
: earned with his summer job.  32K, a B&W TV and a Radio Shack cassette
: tape recorder and we played Lemonade for hours on end.

: The next year he added a Disk II just before AppleDOS 3.3 became
: available.  a few weeks later, when he found that memory became a
: problem he then added an additional 16K to max out his system.  At
: that point he also bought the newly released AppleDOS 3.3 and
: enhancement kit.  Along with the 16 sector ROMs the kit also came with
: a sheet of small red apple stickers with a white 16 on them.  This was
: intended to mark your 16 sector disks from your 13.  I guess I was
: pretty lucky to have seen that part of history.

Now the stickers, I have seen.  Not on disks, but on 16-sector disk
controller cards.

--Dave Althoff, Jr.
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