[Coco] Off-Topic Apple II stuff

Michael Brant brant.michael.l at gmail.com
Fri Jun 26 12:38:07 EDT 2015


Thanks Chris, I was not expecting there to be so many CoCo users that are
also Apple II users, but lots of great info.  Thanks everyone.

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 12:21 PM, Chris Osborn <fozztexx at fozztexx.com>
wrote:

> Since everyone seems to want to discuss the Apple II on the list, here’s
> the info I had sent to Michael:
>
> > I haven’t found any mailing lists, if you do, let me know. The USENET
> comp.sys.apple2.* groups are still pretty active. There’s an Apple II forum
> on Atari Age http://atariage.com/forums/forum/158-apple-ii-computers/,
> and there’s an Apple II subreddit http://reddit.com/r/apple2. There’s
> also lots of Apple II people on RetroBattlestations
> http://retrobattlestations.com.
> >
> > I currently have an Apple IIgs (purchased the week it was released back
> in 1986), an Apple IIc, an Apple IIe, and an enhanced Apple IIe. My first
> computer growing up was an Apple II+. I still have the Epson MX-80 from the
> II+, but the II+ itself is long gone. My enhanced IIe is loaded up with an
> Apple Parallel card and an Apple Dot Matrix Printer (precedes the
> ImageWriter line), an Apple Workstation card so it can do AppleTalk and
> AppleShare and even boot over the network, an Apple Super Serial card, and
> a Z80 card which lets it run CP/M.
> >
> > If you’ve got blank floppies you can create disks from bare metal by
> using ADTPro. http://adtpro.sourceforge.net/
> >
> > The main Apple II software archive is Asimov:
> http://mirrors.apple2.org.za/ftp.apple.asimov.net/
> >
> > There’s also ASCII Express which will let you load software right from
> your phone through the cassette input on the IIe: http://asciiexpress.net/
>
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