Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: markomalley; Swordmaker

Cute. I really enjoyed working with the Apple ][, great little machine.


8 posted on 04/12/2015 6:26:18 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: dayglored
Cute. I really enjoyed working with the Apple ][, great little machine.

Thanks for the heads up. I too enjoyed working on the Apple ][. My daughters school was given one by Apple back when she was the first Kindergartner in the Stockton Unified Gifted and Talented program. They decided that the GATE class was the perfect classroom to get the computer. . . but they had no software. I spent a lot of time writing software for it. . . and the school let me take it home to work on it.

I recall one night after spending twelve hours writing a spelling drill program for the teacher that would show a picture of the object to be spelled and providing other clues, it allowed the student to try to spell it correctly. Pretty nifty. When I went to save the program to floppy, the bleeping computer claimed it couldn't find the floppy drive. On an Apple ][ of the period, the only way to get one to re-recognize a floppy drive, was to RESTART the bleeping computer. . . losing all your work. I could not save all my work.

The blue invective awoke my wife at the other end of the house and probably neighbors for at least a couple of blocks around! That was the day I learned to make incremental saves on anything I was doing. LOL!

14 posted on 04/18/2015 10:14:07 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson