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Re: Apple 2C Question

On 22 May 1998 02:45:22 GMT, shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy
Shackelford) wrote:

>Edhel Iaur, Esq. (edhel@LOSETHECAPITALWORDSbigfoot.com) wrote:
>
>: >Having never owned a //c I need to ask.  Does the //c enable the 80
>: >column firmware on startup?  I was under the assumption that it worked
>: >the same as all the other Apple II models and it didn't enable the 80
>: >column firmware until you specifically told it to do so by typing
>: >PR#3.
>
>: Yes.  Or, if you're in BASIC,
>
>: Esc, Apple-8
>
>Where does this apple-8 thing come from?

Reading my news messages too fast to be accurate :)  The Esc, Apple-8
thing only gets you from the checkerboard cursor on a //c or IIgs.
And, on a IIgs, you can't use Esc, Apple-4 on a IIgs until its
80-column firmware is on.
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