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hardware you're using in the configuration? I would've figured you'd lock the
ports at (what I was to... ll do 19.2k, what will the 16.8k one do? 24k? How would that
setting work with a communications package (... of your modems? Or some sort of ROM upgrade? I would have waited a
few weeks or so if I had known that... LY TO MSG# 2085 (HST DS > 16.8K)
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ot from Mike Markkula and Mike Scott, the company would likely have drowned in its own success. Starting... lication software like VisiCalc ensured that they would do well for a while. But up to this time in the ... re satisfied to be a single-product company, that would be fine; but the people running the company wante... rable effort into creating something they thought would be better than an AppleII, something that would b
authors that knew they had something unique that would be in demand by Apple owners hungry for something... anding that a large variety of available programs would help encourage more sales for the AppleII, Apple ... A command was typed on a line, and the computer would execute that command and return with a prompt for... red, not necessarily going from top to bottom (as would be necessary if it was being typed on a piece of
of all types. Each month a host of new products would be available for those who wanted to find more th... work on a different, more powerful computer that would use several identical microprocessor chips sharing tasks. The main advantage would be speed, and the ability to do high precision ca... such a revolutionary type of design, they knew it would take many years to come to actual production. Be
ecifically with the smallest AppleII, the IIc, it would help to take an aside and look at some other even... not because any thought had been given to what it would do for them."<1> However, a significant change o... creating a smaller, less expensive computer that would do the same thing. Jef Raskin, the engineer that... hould simply be built-in and the case sealed. It would be something that you just plugged in, turned on,
as to accidentally shift the pins over by one, it would burn out the motor on the disk drive, requiring a... e next revolution of the record. While few of us would be that fast, many of us could pick up a checker ... wait for the next revolution of the record. This would be (approximately) a 4:1 interleave. With this "... te from the next. This continuous series of bits would be similar to having a paragraph of text with no
tem AND user programs!) Most hackers of the time would not have known what to DO with four megabytes of ... a new microprocessor called the 65816. This chip would have all of the assembly language opcodes (comman... e 65c02 through an "emulation" mode. However, it would be a true 16-bit processor, with the ability hand... call that people there liked designing boxes that would do neat things, but there was not enough of a uni
ssner conceived the idea of a single program that would put word processing, database, and spreadsheet ca... than the memory of the 64K Apple IIe on which it would run (as a minimum memory configuration), the prog... y out its various functions. Considering that it would run on a computer whose microprocessor could addr... work on the Mac was their fear that Apple itself would compete with them-- Apple, obviously, had tremend
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A basic definition of a peripheral would be, "Something attached to a computer that makes ... re no cards available to plug into the slots, you would imagine that the AppleII couldn't make use of any... even data bits and three handshaking bits.<8> It would automatically send certain control codes to the p... ade printers that used the same control codes and would work with it.<5>
In April 1978 the AppleII C
k was already working on making enhancements that would make his computer faster and more functional. He... hanging commands, and various BASIC commands that would plot in color. I got this ball bouncing around, ... rtant for a computer that was useful, one that he would want to own. Since the 6502 processor could addr... , however. Steve Jobs didn't believe that anyone would ever need more than two slots, one for a printer
ton made a very simple disk operating system that would only load files from fixed locations off the disk... g system (DOS); their rudimentary control program would not be flexible enough for efficient and simple u... M BASICS
To create an operating system that would be both simple to use and yet powerful enough for... d VERIFY. This set of routines, along with RWTS, would be similar to the file PRODOS in the current 8-bi
built-in features the peripherals that most users would want to use. They allocated serial ports to slot... le location as on the older Apples. This toolbox would have a single address to call, and a specific command would be passed on through that address. Set up like this, it would allow Apple's firmware programmers to modify the
TH ProDOS.
If you are an advanced programmer (or would like to become one), we highly recommend Quality ... bles K1$ and K2$ in line 5 of the program. K1$="" would catalog the current directory, K1$="/TEST/SUB" wi... if [A] was set to "/DISK/SUBFILES", pressing "D" would change it to "/DISK".
N: New Disk
Press "N" to ... ays highlighted first, so pressing the left arrow would move you to the minutes, while pressing the right
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macro #n. Example
Phone#: xxx-xxxx !0
This would, upon connect, execute macro #0. Note that both ... aracter, it will pause for
1/2 second (ie. "****" would produce a two second delay).
AE Command Charact... xample:
<pukenuke>..rest of macro string..
This would pause until the string "pukenuke" was recieved over the line, then
it would continue with the rest of the macro.
Handshake
AppleII. The main attraction of this newer Apple would be Applesoft in ROM, available immediately withou... it from cassette or disk. Also, having it in ROM would move it out of the part of memory where RAM Apple... isk II with either version of BASIC. Since users would not need to add the smaller 4K memory chips, the ... they added fixed things so that non-graphics text would display in black and white only. Another problem