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Supplies

I wanted to download some software for my Apple //, but when I went to get some diskettes, I didn’t have enough.  It was time to order some more, but couldn’t readily find my notes on what to buy.  For

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Another New User Kit Page

I worked on another page of my Macintosh, New User Kit today.  Simply enough it is called Macintosh SE, Clean install of 6.0.8 and ZIP Driver. In order to do this page I backed up the hard drive on my

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Macintosh, The Other Apple, Continues

As I started yesterday, for the next few postings I’m going to be working on my Macs. I have found one of the biggest problems with working on vintage computers has been moving files around.  There are several different ways

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Macintosh, The Other Apple

I spent today working on the other Apple, the Macintosh. In this case I was working on my Macintosh Plus.  I have a Macintosh Plus with a 100MB ZIP drive from Iomega.  If you look around the internet you can

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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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New User Kit, Part 3

I spent quite a bit of time looking for and working with .shk files today.  In the process, I made some notes and added a page to my New User Kit.  I called it Extracting .shk Disk Images on Windows.

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