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Re: A2 newbie w/?'s etc.
taibhse@csd.uwm.edu wrote:
>
> Evenin'
> Well, let me first sumarize. I bought my first Apple, a Performa 5200 last
> year and am now a dedicated Apple fan. Early in May, my parents in-law were
> and I got several responses. One person named MacKintosh! gave me his old
> //e w/epson printer. Egads that thing is old, 13 years at least! Any ways,
Apples are kewl. I used to be a apple basher, cause compaired to my
IBM, the //e's had ugly graphics, and I was just pejiduce against macs,
but I have had my calling and repent to Mr Salerno.
> Well, I had some problems w/the free //e which I solved by gutting drive2
> and tricking the thing into thinking it was drive1 and am now upto lesson 4
> in AppleSoft BASIC Tutorial and was looking to the future-Pascal, which
> I'll have to learn for my introductory Computers class this fall. I dl'ed
> somethig called Apple PASCAL in 4 separate files but couldn't run them. Any
> ideas...of course, that was before the IIGS which I got yesterday but, I'd
> like to use the //e to learn PASCAL, ANY ideas?
> The IIGS is more complicated tha the //e so the questions are more
Try the library, they sometimes have neat old computer books (usually
any books they do have on computers won't have much newer than a ][ in
it anyway)
> complicated; It came w/5.0 so I diligently dl'ed 6.0.1 and discoverd that
> while 5.0 consisted of 2 disks; System and Tools, 6.0.1 consists of
> several;Install, System, Tools1, Tools2, Fonts, Apple II Setup, and
> SynthLAB. A bit overly complicated it seems for a Hard Driveless computer.
Don't know why its so much more complicated, but the brand new system 7
macs at my school take about 2 or 3 minutes to boot while the 8 (?) year
old sys6 ones take about 10 seconds. they just keep adding all sorts of
junk that you don't need.
PS about the GS. if you a 3.5" drive on the GS and the latest version
of PC Exchange on the Mac, you can use the GS's prodos disks in the Mac
I think.
> criostoir
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