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Re: How start BASIC without diskette?

Steve Nickolas wrote:

http://usotsuki.info/tapedos.dsk.gz

If someone can take the file "DOS 3.3 CRUNCH" from this disk and save it to
a WAV, FLAC or ALAC file (I don't have a serial port on my current computer
:c), it may be of use to people wanting to bootstrap an Apple.

It contains a modified version of DOS.SYSTEM from Beagle Bros, compressed
using the same techniques as my game disks.  If converted to a wave file you
can just plug the computer's headphone out to the Apple, ]LOAD, play the
file, ]RUN, wait about 3 seconds and presto!
I succeeded to transfer the disk image to a disk and boot it. Is there any instructions for it? What's the purpose of it compared to the Applesoft BASIC in ROM?
Is it possible to send it using only the cassette-port? To what address should one load it? I doubt I have this much RAM? How can one tell how much RAM one got and where it is? 


I still wonder why there seems to be no reset button on the OP's Apple ][+.


One has to press Shift+Ctrl+Reset on this Apple II Europlus Swedish.