Monthly Archives: July 2013

Musical 100, (Give or Take)

I looked back over the posts I have done and although yesterday’s post was number 100, on July 23 I did two posts, so today is day 100 of posting.  Instead of doing the posting as a musical number, I

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DOS 3.3 Copying, Continued

According to WordPress this is the 100th posting.  If this were an episode of a TV series, I would be required to do this posting as a musical.  Trust me on this, nobody wants that to happen. First thing this

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DOS 3.3 Copying

Yesterday I spent some time trying to copy the Dos 3.3 diskette I downloaded.  I wanted to make a copy so I would know how to do it and put together a page on it for the New User Kit.

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New User Kit and Programming

I’ve been working on the New User Kit for the last couple of days.  The focus has been on ProDos, because, that’s what I have used.  I changed the P8-Utilities Disk page to remind the user to store the original diskette.

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New User Kit, Making a ProDos Data Disk, Making a Bootable ProDos Disk

I have added a page of instructions for making a ProDos data disk and another for making a bootable ProDos disk to the New User Kit. — 46/49  

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New User Kit, ProDos 8 Utilities

Today, I have been concentrating on adding pages to the New User Kit.  I’ve started with the ProDos 8 Utilities and given step by step instructions for doing both single and dual drive disk copies.  All the ProDos 8 Utilities

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Daily Apple, Near Past and Future

This month so far has been pretty rough with a combination of technical and personal stuff going on.  With just over two weeks of very quick postings, this blog has taken kind of a back seat. Three of the four

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KFest, OZ KFest, & IFComp

Kansas Fest has started.  For those of you who are there, you can’t believe how jealous I am.  I understand Woz showed up in time for Randy Wigginton’s presentation.  I saw him speak at the one of the first Macworld

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IFComp 2013

At the end of June, the 26th, IFComp 2013 opened for business.  This is the 19th annual interactive competition. IFComp is a competition for fairly small interactive fiction entries.  Check the IFComp website for rules, but the short of it

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Apple //e Stuff

There was a listing on eBay for a “CFFA3000 With Remote For Apple IIe, Apple IIgs” card.  First bid was for $1 and ended at $250.  If it wasn’t out of my price range I’d have been right in there

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