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AppleWorks

I got AppleWorks up and running on the tablet and started playing with some numbers in the spreadsheet.  It has been many years since I last used the spreadsheet in AppleWorks, but I have used others so it should be

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AppleWorks

Today, I wanted to use a spreadsheet to play around with some numbers. They were personal numbers and I was away from home.  Then, I had a thought, AppleWorks.  I am pretty familiar with it and I usually have my

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Nostalgia

You have probably noticed I do a lot of posts on games for the Apple II.  At this point in my life, entertainment is the primary use for the Apple II.  Specifically, nostalgia. When I originally bought my Apple //c,

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An Embarrassment of Riches

Back in the mid 80’s when I bought my Apple //c, all things Apple came at fairly high price for someone like me who was on a tight budget. No we suffer from an embarrassment of riches when it comes

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What can you do?

What can you do with an Apple II? I started this post in May of this year, but put it aside in favor of something else. I’ve used the Apple II to create documents, do spread sheets, and create databases;

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Hamurabi, Applesoft

In my last post about the Applesoft version of Hamurabi, I noted the spacing problem and the tedious fix of retyping each of the lines that had issues. There is a way to edit lines using escape codes, but I always found

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Apple II Uses

I’d love to hear from others on this post. Just after I graduated from high school, 1981, a friend of a friend had an Apple IIe with the two 5 1/4″ drives stacked up next to it.  That was the

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Using a Mini Harddrive

If you have a 800K 3 1/2″ disk drive on your Apple II, you have a mini harddrive.  The Apple II is best known for  140K 5 1/4″ diskette drives, although it could be used without one by using a cassette tape

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Daily Apple

I intend to use this space to post on a daily basis about Apple II computers. I bought my first Apple Computer on December 29 of 1984.  It was an Apple //c and came with a 9″ monitor and stand, a

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