Re: What model Apple II did your school have?

[Charles Richmond <richmond@ev1.net>]

Roger Johnstone wrote:
> 
> In <Munged-1804031319040001@wnpgmb01bby-ac03-p18-93.mts.net> Perry wrote:
> 
> > Just a quick survery:
> >
> > What model Apple II did your school have (if any)?
> 
> I started high school in 1983. I don't remember the school getting them,
> but well before the end of the year they had two Apple IIe computers.
> From memory, each had a single Disk II and 64KB. At some point they got
> a third IIe with a colour monitor and 128KB. There weren't any formal
> computer classes (three computers into 600 students doesn't work well!)
> but we could book time on the computers and use them during lunch and
> after school. Shortly after the computers arrived I bought my first 5.
> 25" disk (one disk, not a box) and started to teach myself BASIC.
> 
> > I always did like the built in character generator font that the Apple //
> > e
> > produced onscreen.
> 
> I know what you mean. I've always detested the serif characters IBM used
> for their PC, they look far too cartoonish and cluttered.
> 
You can get a true-type font (for Macintosh) of the Apple II font at:

	<http://www.lazilong.com/apple_II/a2font/a2font.html>

I am sure that I have seen a similar font for the PC...

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