Today I finished sorting through my diskettes. I think there were a couple of hundred diskettes altogether. I ended up throwing away 9 diskettes that just would not read and could not be formatted. I was using the PRODos System…
Monthly Archives: June 2013
Sorting Diskettes and More
I didn’t do much physically with the Apple //c today. I started sorting through some more diskettes, thinking they didn’t look very familiar and the handwriting on the labels was not mine. I remembered, I bought one of these diskette…
Sorting Diskettes
I started going through the diskettes that were in my tote, that I dug out the other day. What a disorganized mess. There were two of the diskette trays, two of the plastic boxes that hold around 10 diskettes, and…
More on Apple II Stuff
I moved my Apple //c around and made some changes which you can read about below (or not). I connected my mouse to the Apple //c and found that by moving the adjustment on the left side of the monitor…
Posted in Apple //c, Printers Tagged with: 3 1/2" Diskette Drive, 5 1/4" Diskette Drive, Apple //c, Monitor, Printer
USB Serial Port
I forgot all about testing the USB serial port yesterday, until late in the day. Today, I spent a little bit of time testing it. I tried it on the Linux laptop first and what I thought was the new…
Apple II Stuff
I went looking for more of my Apple II stuff today. I dug out one of my totes. They are fairly large 18 gallon totes about the size of a laundry basket. This one had two diskette storage trays full of…
Printing, Part 2 (and serial ports)
The ribbons came in today. I tried them out and they worked well. I printed a sign and a banner. I loaded up my prodos writing diskette and printed out a listing of the startup program. After printing the listing,…
Apple II Games, Part 2
So, still thinking about games, I went back online to the place I should have started, Asimov. They had all the games on my list. Several had both the 140K and 800k disk images, unfortunately the only version of Shogun…
Apple II Games
I’ve been thinking about games for the Apple II. Whenever you talk to somebody about their first experiences with an Apple II (or read about them), the subject of games almost always comes up. I think from time to time,…
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