Re: Some advice on a comms program sought

[jim@magrathea.plus.com (Jim)]

Polymorph <polymorph69@hotmail.com> wrote:

> > As I say, I'm essentially starting from scratch on the Apple 2, so I may
> > be getting stuff hilariously wrong.
> 
> You weren't hilariously wrong at all! Welcome to the Apple II
> community. Are you a newbie, or returning after an extended hiatus?

Thanks for the information. I'm effectively a newbie to the Apple II.
It's a machine I've always admired (for its part in the computer
revolution if nothing else) but as I'm UK based getting hold of one at
the time was prohibitively expensive.

Hence I started out on a TRS-80 Model 1 Level 2 (which I still have),
then an Acorn BBC Micro (ditto) [0] which in many ways was the UK's
answer to the Apple II.

I own three Apple II's - a ][europlus, a //e and what's probably another
//e except it doesn't say. The keyboard is the same however, and the
green power light has '65C02' on it. Last night I swapped boards around
in order to get one of them to have a serial card, a disk card and an
80col card. Beyond making sure this still worked (booting my DOS 3.3
disk) that's about as far as I went last night.

I know a _little_ about the operation of Apple IIs but nowhere near
enough - for instance I know that you type CATALOG in DOS3.3 to catalog
the disk in drive one, but I have no idea how you catalog drive 2 :-)

If there's an FAQ I should be reading first, please feel free to shout
me in the general direction.

Many thanks.

Jim
[0] I collect all sorts of old computer stuff. For instance, when
testing the FreeBSD server end of the serial link I used one of my Tandy
100 units.
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