Re: Old Apple DOS (was Re: Apple IIc O/S)

[mark.REMOVE.percival@videotron.ca (Mark Percival)]

Actually he quoted "various Apple II history sources" that are
incorrect.  In that regard I agree with you.

I like the t-shirt idea though!

On Sun, 9 May 1999, Tony Cianfaglione wrote:
>
>   You didn't 'correct' David Empson.  David didn't say that the first
>Apple DOS was 3.2.1; he just said he had never seen anything older.
>
>   Sorry, no t-shirt this time.  ;-)
>
>----------------------------------------------------
>
>On Sun, 9 May 1999, Mark Percival wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 10 May 1999 03:55:41 +1200, dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David
>> Empson) wrote:
>> 
>> >Actually, I would like to know about DOS 1 or 2.
>> >
>> >If the various Apple II history sources are correct, then the first
>> >public version was DOS 3.0.  I've never seen anything older than 3.2.1,
>> >however.
>> 
>> Here's a rarity, correcting David Empson.  There ought to be an "I
>> Corrected David Empson" T-shirt awarded for something like this.
>> <grin>
>> 
>> The first public version of Apple DOS was version 3.1.  The man who
>> was contracted to write Apple DOS was Paul Laughton and he talks about
>> the evolution of Apple DOS on his web page
>> http://www.laughton.com/Apple/Apple.html
>

Mark R. Percival
Montreal, Quebec

An Apple II fanatic since 1979.