ame from home, many users created their own small systems that could be called from elsewhere. These "bulletin board systems" consisted of a single computer that was always w... to posting messages for others to read. As these systems became more sophisticated, it became possible to ... r callers.
The success of these small, local systems encouraged the larger, mainframe-based systems to
amming of the X-10 devices, ranging from security systems to light timers to lawn sprinkler systems.
MISCELLANEOUS HARDWARE
Here follows a short list of som... <6>
Hard disks, such as those made by Corvus Systems. You could get a massive 10 MB for only $5,350 (... leII's, was available for only $3.25 from Special Systems Design.
DoubleDOS Plus was a DiskII interfac
1 megabyte(MB) per second over its Small Computer Systems
Interface(SCSI) interface.
The Macintosh II co... s "identify" themselves so, unlike other
computer systems thereis no need to set dip switches to configuret... ecial purpose keys
for sing alternative operating systems, such as MS-DOS or terminal emulation
programs. ... r A/UX and
will be available from Apple. Unisoft Systems developed a significant portion
of A/UX under con
of the various versions of AppleII disk operating systems: For DOS I chose to use the date found on the HE... of the computer.
1977 June
First AppleII systems ship. Standard configuration included 4K of memo... ble" begins publication.
1980 May
Online Systems begins business with the game Mystery House, the ... tember
Apple stops announcing publicly how many systems it sells per year.
Steve Wozniak holds the firs
fer to such
services, and any other non-Apple II systems, as "hosts.") Although
most hosts are able to re... ttribute bytes. All the common Apple II operating systems,
notably ProDOS, store the attributes inside the... derations apply for the
files of other operating systems.
The "native file type code" has meaning only ... e by its native operating system. (Some operating systems, such
as CP/M and MS-DOS, do not use file type c
t commonly-used communications rates for dial-up
systems (BBSs and online services like CompuServe, DELPHI...
GEnie) are 300, 1200, and 2400 bps. A few older systems--
especially Telex systems--communicate at 110 bps, but these are
gradually going the way of the dinosaur... ,200
and up) but these are not used with dial-up systems; the upper
limit on asynchronous data transmissi
ple IIgs, Apple // computer users are using their systems for more complex
and larger tasks resulting in greater demands for high capacity disk storage
systems. Since the birth of the Apple ][, we have seen c... Apple hard drives.
The SCSI (Small Computer Systems Interface) hard drives are by far the
most popula... Formatting Software $529
* SCSI Drive Systems do NOT include host adapter card
* Each
ater under the name "Merlin" by Southwestern Data Systems (later known as Roger Wagner Publishing). This a... ten in Integer BASIC; and L.I.S.A., sold by Laser Systems.<10>
MACROS VS. SCRIPTS
With the increase... of hacking into long distance telephone switching systems, and was therefore quite illegal.
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Also, the trend is towards larger, more complex systems,
wide area networking, extremely high throughput... I've
ever used, of any type, were all very small systems; RCP/Ms,
Apple][/GBBS, etc. Most used awful soft... l
the best (meaning most useful or most amusing) systems I've
run across. There's a hint there, I think.
tapes (which are also used in many of the MS-DOS
systems and are therefore readily available) can be purch... With your computer, hard drive and tape backup systems ON, boot the
HDTAPE disk. After the program boot... ually given on commercially-assembled
tape backup systems. Check with the vendor of the case/power supply
der! And then there is the alphabet soup of disk systems: DOS 3.3, CP/M, Pascal, ProDOS, and GS/OS (if you... in which early users overcame the limits of their systems. We will follow through with the development of
hips had dropped considerably, so most new IIPlus systems came standard with a full 48K of RAM. Since the ... RAM chip plus one or two 4K RAM chips). In those systems a hardware bug caused the 8K of memory from $4000
g 256K or more of extra memory available. Saturn Systems was one early suppliers of the large RAM cards. ... erator IIe by Titan Technologies (formerly Saturn Systems; they had to change their name because it was alr
There are at least fifteen times that many IIGS systems, and at least thirty times that many IIe/IIc systems, not even counting the clones. And a lot more softwa