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Merlin 8 Working Diskette

I’ve been having doubts about my Apple //c for months now.  After doing diagnostics on my system, I’ve come to realize that my problems were based on bad diskette media. Back in March, when Assembly Lines became available, I downloaded

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The New Apple II User’s Guide by David Finnigan.

The New Apple II User’s Guide by David Finnigan. I started this post last May  (05-May-13) and never could write what I felt was a thorough and fair review.  I didn’t have any thing against the book, quite the opposite,

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Old Computer Books, Pascal

This afternoon my two Pascal Books came in.  They came in packed in one of those plastic bag type sealed envelope making you wonder what kind of shape they were going to be in.  They were in fine shape. Pascal

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A Quick Review, Part Two

The New Apple II User’s Guide by David Finnigan Roughly, the last third of the book consists of nine appendices, a glossary, and the index. Appendix B contains a summary of commands and functions for DOS, PRODos, Applesoft and Integer

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A Quick Review, Part One

The New Apple II User’s Guide by David Finnigan. My copy came in from Amazon almost a week ago.  I haven’t had time to read it, just skim through it. My first impression is, it’s a huge paperback, 774 pages.  

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Old Computer Books

One nice thing about being hooked on vintage computers like the Apple II is most of the books are all old.  That sounds like a strange thing to say, but old books are most likely going to save some you money. 

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Writers Block?

Yesterday’s post was not really what I was aiming at.  I’ve started two posts for today, both were interesting, but required a lot of research, before I go ahead and post them. It turns out, I have a little case of

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