Re: Hello fellow Apple II owners!

[steve@dosius.zzn.com (Dosius)]

"GSGeek" <yves.mcdonald@<NO_SPAM>sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:<6Wasa.6393$fg3.608388@news20.bellglobal.com>...
> > and last but certainly not least, I turn the machine on and it is asking
>  for
> > a boot disk?  What do I do?
> >
> Just insert an Apple 2 formatted disk into the drive.  I'd be surprised if
> you had not received any floppy disks with your 2c.  Generally, people just
> give their software collection along with the machine.  It usually consists
> of a few copies of the system disk (a bootable disk with DOS 3.3 or ProDos
> and utilities) and mostly pirated games :).  I'm not sure about the 2c but
> pressing reset button  brings the machine into BASIC interpreter where you
> can type in BASIC programs but you won't be able to save them because you
> don't have a disk operating system loaded in memory!
> 
> Have fun with retro-computing,
> 
> Yves

Yes, Ctrl-Reset works on all autostart ][ models including the //c. ;)

Since the //c is hardware-compatible with the Super Serial Card, you
can try using the ESDOS dump on Asimov and ADT to transfer software to
your //c...

No luck on my end (//e).

-uso.