If you have an Apple II and are trying to download software for it, you most likely will be using a more modern intermediate computer such as a PC or a Mac. You would download the files onto the modern machine…
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BBS Software, Part 1A
The other day, when I discovered that AppleWin could access the physical serial port, I thought to my self, It’s to bad someone hasn’t written a program that pretends to be a modem so you could dial out over the…
Stuff
There used to be a store that we drove by up the coast a bit called Stuff. I always thought that was a cool name for a store. Sunday, I made the winning bid on an Imagewriter II printer. I…
A Strange Connection
I got to thinking today about something I did the other day. When I created the simple startup program for my /PRODOSWRITER disk, I wrote the original version on my laptop using AppleWin. When it was done I used ZLink…
Odds and Ends
Yesterday, I received the first of my orders of diskettes, a box of 3 1/2″. Today I put together some new project diskettes. I created a new work diskette for ADTPro and another copy of my writers diskette with AppleWorks…
Apple //c as a Terminal, Part 2A
I put my Windows laptop into the docking station and tried Putty. I feel silly I didn’t think of it sooner. My thanks to Osgeld who reminded me. I have it on all of my PC’s, but use it for something…
Apple //c as a Terminal, Part 2
Today, I managed to make it work, with a little help from several web resources. The first was: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/find-out-linux-serial-ports-with-setserial/ I tried: $ dmesg | grep tty I got: [ 0.000000] console [tty0] enabled [ 0.688953] 00:09: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8…
Apple //c as a Terminal, Part 1A
Today I didn’t have a lot of time for this project. I got tied up with a Windows network problem instead. I have a mix of Windows 7 and Windows XP machines and they have decided not to play nice.…
Apple //c as a Terminal, Part 1
I downloaded a copy of ZLink. It’s a communications program for the Apple II. I remember it used to work fairly well. I swapped laptops in my docking station, so I could try using the Apple //c as a terminal…
Connections
After connecting my Apple //c to my TV, I went looking through my cable crates. Over the years I have collected a couple of crates full of cables and connectors. Growing up my Dad always had those racks made from…
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