Re: "New" Apple lle

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@garberstreet.com>]

"Linards Ticmanis" <ticmanis@gmx.de> wrote in message news:4d7e4bab$0$6772$9b4e6d93@newsspool3.arcor-online.net...
> On 03/14/2011 05:57 PM, Linards Ticmanis wrote:
>> On 03/14/2011 04:25 PM, Bettablue wrote:
>>
>>> 1.  I know it doesn't have a GUI as far as operating systems go right now,
>>> but since it seems to have 640K of memory, I doubt it will support a newer
>>> OS, Am I wrong here?  Can I upgrade the memory and install a newer operating
>>> system with graphical user interface?
>
>> You don't install an OS on the Apple unless it has a hard disk (again,
>> most do not). You just boot it from a floppy, and if you want another,
>> you boot it from another floppy. The main ones were DOS 3.3 (which is
>> actually several versions, but they're all called DOS 3.3, and they all
>> had nothing to do with MS-DOS 3.3), and ProDOS, which has about a dozen
>> versions from 1.0 to 2.0.3.
>
> Something I forgot to mention... Most Apple programs, especially games,
> bring their own OS right on the disk. So you just plug the game disk
> into the drive before you turn on the computer, no need to load DOS first.
>
> One more thing: You can stop the auto-boot process by pressing
> CTRL-RESET when you don't want to boot any OS. You can re-boot the
> computer by pressing CTRL-OPENAPPLE-RESET, it's much like CTRL-ALT-DEL
> on IBMs. You can boot from the controller in a specific slot by entering
> the BASIC command PR#<slot number>, for example PR#6 to boot from your
> standard floppy controller.
>
> Another: When you connect the floppy cables to the floppy controller
> card, if it's the type where the ribbon cables connect directly to a row of
> metal posts on the card MAKE ABSOLUTELY SURE YOU DON'T
> MISALIGN THE CABLE AND CONNECTOR (so that one ore more
> pins are not in the holes at one end). Otherwise it's very easy to kill your drives.

One way to ensure this is to remove the card from the Apple, connect the cables,
then re-insert the card into the slot.  Be sure to get the plug on both rows of pins,
which means that the plug will be flush with the card with the cable coming away
from the card.

Bill