Re: Apple ][e - Getting started (DITTO!!!)

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

John Marks writes ...
> 
> dante wrote:
 ....

> 
> I just bought a Apple IIc with monitor...my first Apple experience
> 
> > When we turn it on, all we see is "Apple ][" at the
> > top of the screen, and "Check disk drive" at the bottom. We've got no disks
> > or anything, so I'm hoping this is what we're supposed to see. Yes/No?
> >
> > Do I need a boot disk here? What kind of disks does it use? I can see it's
> > a 5 1/2 inch floppy, but what size/format are we talking about? What OS
> > does it use? (Not that it would help, but I'm curious). Is it possible at
> > all for me to use my PC to access the software and write it to a disk?
> 
> WOW, I was gonna ask the same exact question!  Except when it says
> "Check Disk Drive",...and I turn it off and on again, I get some
> jibberish  but a prompt does appear where I can enter a BASIC program.
> But when you do an infinite loop like GOTO same line number, there is no
> RUN/STOP button!
 ....

     You can press Control-Reset. On Apple II's, doing a Reset does not
erase an Applesoft program; so, it makes a pretty good 'Stop'.


> 
> I have even searched many WWW pages and I guess they all assume you know
> what to do from the beginning.

     To some extent, many places do seem to make this assumption. You
can find the FAQs for this newsgroup on the home site (Ground) at ...

ftp://ground.ecn.uiowa.edu/apple2/Faqs/

Start with the first file. It includes answers to beginner questions and
has lists of other important sites and vendors. It also lists Questions
answered in the other FAQs files.


You can find line-formatted versions of the FAQs for on-line perusing
via Netscape, etc. at ...
 http://www.grin.net/~cturley/A2.FAQs.and.INFO/CSA2.FAQs/
 ftp://apple.cabi.net/pub/applegs/FAQs.and.INFO/A2.Csa2.FAQs/
 ftp://ground.ecn.uiowa.edu/2/apple2/Faqs/Formatted/



> Someone please respond to this question.  I bet it is a common problem
> (what to do as a true Apple newbie)  Specifically, if you need a boot
> disk....where does one obtain it?
 ....

     As mentioned in the response to Dante, there are many possible
sources (e.g. Apple II vendors, universities and schools, Users Groups,
...). Probably, the best source is one of the regular posters on this
newsgroup.



Rubywand