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Re: How many...models/types: APPLE ][ computers?

Subject: Re: How many...models/types: APPLE ][ computers?
From: guertinp@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Paul Guertin)
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 1995 18:45:24 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Organization: Universite de Montreal, Canada
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In article <D1x53A.1IH@actrix.gen.nz> dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) writes:
>That was a later addition.  The original method was to boot the
>"BASICS" disk, I believe.  It then asked you to insert the DOS 3.2 disk
>and booted it.

Speaking of the BASICS disk, does anyone know why it was named
this way? I remember being very confused about it when I started
using Apple computers. Why not name it "13-sector pre-boot" or
something like that?

Paul Guertin
guertinp@iro.umontreal.ca

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