Re: Commodore 64 kills APPLE II

[Scarlet Otter <SecretaryBird@SoftHome.net>]

On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 22:11:49 -0800, "Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net>
wrote:

>
>"Dave Althoff Jr" <dalloff@gcfn.org> wrote
>>
>> Yeah, but how many Apple drives are progrmmable?  8-)
>>
>
>Heh heh... one nice thing about the C64 drive is that you can transfer files
>to it from your PC printer port(with the proper cable and software).  It
>would sure simplify getting downloads onto an Apple II if you could do that!
>

If you have a 1571 or 1581 disk drive, there is a little program that
works on the Commodore 64 that will let you read and write MS-DOS
disks.  It isn't Big Blue Reader or Little Red Reader (those are for
the Commodore 128).  I wish I could remember what it was called.  I
guess I'll have to look through my Commie disks soon if I want to find
out.

>But I love 'em all. I like to call that the Golden Age, when many platforms
>flourished.

I heartily agree.  I have a passion for all the old systems from that
era.  My first love was the TI-99/4a (first computer I ever owned),
and then both the Apple ][+ (my first Apple system) and Apple IIGS
(purchased about a year after it was released).

The TI-99/4a (complete with Expansion box, disk drive, RS-232, and 32K
RAM) now permanently shares desk space with the Apple IIGS (8MB RAM,
RAMFast SCSI, and whatever external drives I feel like hooking up.)
:)

I just need to replace the battery in the GS one of these days.
Fortunately, she's a ROM 3 GS, so that should be a fairly simple
operation.

-- Otter