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- Birthday 04/07/1966
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Albany, Oregon, USA, North Western Hemisphere, Planet Tera
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Computers, programming, OS/2, Open BSD, Bass Playing
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BITD, ( 1982 ), I remember seeing the Model I, II, III and 4 at Radio-Shack and I faintly remember the Color Computer 1. Since I was into the Apple ][, ( an Apple ][+, 48K at my High School and an Apple ][e at Home ), and a Commodore SX-64, because most of the rest of my family had the C64s.. In college, ( 1985 ), I had a friend that Started with the Model I, and by the time I met him and his wife, they had moved up to the Model III and Model 4, and a Tandy 2000. I go to borrow the Tandy 2000 for a month, but is was only MS-DOS compatible, so unless I wanted to write all my own Software, there wasn't much to run.. Today, i'm into the Tandy Color Computer, because in 2012 I got a NIB, Color Computer 3, ( CoCo 3 ), that was included with an Apple //e Platinum with Apple Color Monitor ][e and some original software. At first I wasn't quite sure what to do with it, but found it has the MC6809, which is very much like the 6502 family, and since I never had any Color Computer equipment before, so I kept it... Since then, I have gotten, Two of the CoCoSDCs, Two FD-500 Drives, a Extended Basic 64K CoCo 2, and then a Standard BASIC 16K CoCo 2, with a BONUS, ( reported Non-Working ), 4K CoCo 1.. By the time it arrived, the CoCo 1 worked fine... Three more CoCo2s and another CoCo 3 and a few CoCo Carts. MarkO
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Is the Apple II closer to a home computer or a hobby computer?
MarkO replied to bluejay's topic in Apple II Computers
Very Interesting... I was at my "local" Apple Dealer, "Team Electronics" pretty frequently.. I would guess that it wasn't in their, ( best ) interest to offer the Apple ][ / ][+ / ][e as a kit, since this wasn't offered as an option.. Possibly a more "hobbies oriented" place, like The Byte Shop would have different clientele and offer different services. I think I would have liked growing up in the Silicon Valley in the 1970s.. Alas, at least I benefited from growing up near the Silicon Forrest.. MarkO -
Is the Apple II closer to a home computer or a hobby computer?
MarkO replied to bluejay's topic in Apple II Computers
Apple Computer offered the Apple ][ in 1977 as a Motherboard Only or as a completed system.. The Motherboard Only wasn't offered for very long, from what I have learned, so for the Most Part, the Apple ][ was a Home Computer... All the slots did mean that you could add on to it...... MarkO -
"Apple Roots: Assembly Language Programming for the Apple //e and //c" by Mark Andrews is also on BombJack.org, in the Apple ][ Section. MarkO
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Yes, even the original 'C' supports Loading the Arrays when they come into Scope.. here are some code examples from the ANSI Edition of the 'C' White Book: static char daytab[2][13] = { {0, 31, 28, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31}, {0, 31, 29, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31} }; static char *name[] = { "Illegal month", "January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December" };
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Didn't the Copy ][ Utilities has this feature?? MarkO
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I have made a bit of, Head Way, but I’m getting married next month, and I am packing everything up to move to a new ( slightly bigger ) place.. So the Northstar is hibernating for now... i did post post a bit on the VCFed forum, in the S100 bus section... i will I’ll post pictures and results here soon.. MarkO
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In case You All didn’t, “read between the lines”, I now have this Northstar Horizon, and have started the path to Refurbishment.. But, I have set it aside for a few weeks as I pack up and move houses... MarkO
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Doing a search at https://www.archive.org/ didn't return any results for the Title. Do you have a Link to it?? MarkO
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My "first" Computer Experience was the Apple ][+, in JAN-1982 at my High School. A year later, my Dad and Uncle bought Sinclair ZX-81 Kits, and in NOV-1983, I became a Half-Owner of an Apple ][e. My start with Personal Computers, especially the Apple ][+ is an interesting story, in that I discovered them because I was perpetually late to my First Period Class, Chemistry... My Chemistry Teacher "assigned" me to After School Detention, which started at 15:30, and school ended at 15:10, so while waiting for Detention to Start, the Business classroom next door had Three, Apple ][+s. One with Two Disk ][s, and an Epson MX Printer, One with One Disk ][ and a Hammer type printer and One with just a Disk ][. All had 48K RAM and the Language Card with Integer BASIC. The Business Instructor let me read the AppleSoft Manuals, the Disk ][ Manuals and the Epson Printer Manuals.. This Introduction to Personal Computers lead to getting the Sinclair, and then the Apple ][e, and later a Commodore SX-64 and then IBM-PC Clones and eventually the Tandy Color Computers. ( and an Osborn I and just a few weeks ago, a Northstar Horizon ) I also went to the local community college and learned some Electronics, and Computer Programming, including COBOL and eventually into Embedded Programming. My favorite Apple ][ games are Castle Wolfenstein, Load Runner, and the Adventure Games like EAMON and Odyssey, The Complete Apventure, and the Infocom Games. MarkO
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I can get to the Discord Serve, it just never remembers me.. This is the First Discord Link that works this way. MarkO
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This Discord Invite is Not Persistent... MarkO
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BYTEBOOSTERS Atari joystick converter for Apple II not working
MarkO replied to zezba9000's topic in Apple II Computers
Did Byteboosters clarify why the ][+ doesn't work, but the ][e Does.. MarkO -
The "First Software" I recall buying, was The Merlin Assembler, ( DOS 3.3. & ProDOS ), for the Apple ][e, and "Assemble Lines", from SoftTalk Publishing.. MarkO
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Hi!! Long Time no Speak.... Are you making this an RS-DOS HD Image or NitrOS9/OS9 Image??? 128 MB seems to be the largest practical Disk. The ToolShed Utilities work really good for these sorts of things... MarkO