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Apple II Introductory Disks

I downloaded and tried out “Apple presents: The Apple IIe” and “Apple presents:  The //c, an introduction”.  These disks contain a very basic introduction to the Apple II complete with graphical keyboard examples. I also tried out “Apple presents:  The

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Crash!

Last night the laptop I use to do this blog crashed.  It turns out the fan on my laptop needs to be replaced.  I kind of expected it.  My other laptop had the same thing happen to it.  They are

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Working Disk etc…

So I mentioned spam yesterday and today I got spammed even harder.  I got 32 today, only 2 of which were not about drugs.  Any how I typed most of my post in AppleWorks again today and here it is.

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Simple Startup, Part 1A

While working on yesterdays program and post I found a need to include a listing.  This brings up two problems. My printer is among the missing, as I moved a few years ago and it got separated from my Apple

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Simple Startup, Part 1

When using my /PRODOSWRITER disk, I found it a little tedious to startup either AppleWorks or the System Utilities programs.  The path to start them is twenty one characters long.  This is not much but in this day and age

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Today.. Today..

Well first off, life in general happened today.  All the little projects that did not get done during the last week, needed attention, so I didn’t have as much time to play as I expected. I did hook up my

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Hamurabi, ZBasic from Applesoft

I thought I would try to load the Applesoft version of Hamurabi into ZBasic. In the PRODos index to the ZBasic manual there is a section on just this subject.  It says to use a procedure like we used to

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Diskette Failure

Today, I went to update my ADTPro boot diskette and it would not boot after the update.  I had notched it for double sided use, so I figured I’d try the other side.  When I flipped it over, I noticed

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Diskettes

One problem with these older machines, is the diskettes.  Where do you get them?  You can’t just go into the local store and get new ones. I’m going to have to start looking for some additional diskettes in the near

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Exploring the Internet for Apple II

I decided to take a snoop around the internet about the Apple II. I use Google to read the usenet groups.  I went and signed into google and as I moved through the menus to get to groups I noticed

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