Re: Just found an Apple IIe in the trash. Need help.

["schmidtd" <schmidtd@my-deja.com>]

James Blackmon wrote:
> I found an Apple IIe with a nice Apple III
> monitor, monitor stand, and 2 disk drives.

Nicely done.

> Bad thing is I have no boot disk or any software. I remember that computers
> of that time could often be put in Basic programming mode but I do not know
> what the keyboard combination might be (and usually it did not allow for
> saving to disk if memory serves).

Plug in the Apple, turn it on.  You hear a beep.  Hold down the Ctrl
key, hit the Reset key.  You'll see the Applesoft prompt ("]").  You
can now do BASIC stuff; and you're right, you don't get to save
anything on disk (though you could on tape, if you hooked a tape
recorder up).

> Also how hard would it be to convert one
> or both of the drives to a 3.5 drive. Would that drive need to be a 730K
> double density or could it be the current 1.44mb density drive?

Not reasonably possible.  You'd need new mechanisms, new connectors,
and a new controller.

> I am interested in
> getting a boot disk with any other software someone might be willing to
> offer.

You can create your own if you have a serial card... see below.

> Also will a 8 bit PC modem work in it?

Not unless it's external, and you have a serial card in your Apple.  An
internal modem won't work.

> Anyone have any software for PC to Apple II transfers?

Look no further than the Apple II FAQ:
http://home.swbell.net/rubywand/Csa2T1TCOM.html