Re: .... Apple IIe

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

bobwhite@fractal.noise.com writes ...
> 
> On Wed, 31 Mar 1999 04:51:17 -0600, Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net> :
> 
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> 
> faq's are a headtrip for a windows idjit!

     Bet they are! The Apple II is a computer you can 'get into'-- not a grey box
that gets swapped out every couple of years. 

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> 
> Meanwhile back at the ranch - I'm getting a Apple llgs  (is that
> supposed to be APPLE ][ /gs?) I'll probably go over to Alltech's site
> and give them a call for that harddrive on a card when I get the
> computer here.
>

          The plain "II" symbol is the one most widely accepted as 'correct', or,
at 
least, 'okay', for all Apple II models. 
  

     The, generally, preferred designations are ... 

Apple ][   or  Apple II for pre-II+ models 
Apple ][+  or  Apple II+ 
Apple IIe  for non-enhanced IIe computers 
Apple //e  for 128k enhanced //e computers 
Apple //c 
Apple IIc+ 
Apple IIgs or  GS  or best (if you have the fonts)  "II" followed by "GS" in
     reduced size. 
  

     Just "A2" is fairly common when referring to series-wide products or 
concerns such as "A2 software", "A2 web sites", ...

     Alltech is a good place to get lots of IIgs stuff. If you have a question
about anything you are ordering, ask for Tony Diaz.

 
> I've wasted so much time "fixing windows" in the last 5-6 years, now
> that I have time to do something for myself I'm going to try to get my
> feet's wet in something a little more basic and have some fun.  I
> thought I would find a "start here - go towards there" guide for these
> wonderful computers, I'm beginning to see its more like "find out
> yourself" - I hope I'm up to it.
>

     Yes; our newbie guides could stand some souping up. On the other hand, if we
make them too good then new Apple II owners will think they are supposed to look
up stuff in the FAQs before asking anything here-- _not_ so, by the way.

 
> Yesterday a neighbor came to the house and gave me a pristine TRS-80
> 4p he paid some 200 bucks for because the guy said it would "work" the
> internet.  I gave him an old Dell 386/25 running windows and some
> cd's
 ....

     A TRS-80 for a Dell 386/25? You came out way ahead in that deal!




Rubywand