Here's what I know.
Floppy drive controller goes in slot 5.
80 column adapter - if it's not a 2e - goes in 3. Pinter interface goes in 1.
As far as the operating system, you can ftp it down from apple - of course
you need an apple to write the disks. You can also order the OS disks from
alltech (www.allelec.com) for less than 10 bucks, I think. Alltech also
carries a surprizing number of *new* and refurbished hardware for the 2s
including roms, disk drives, interface cards, motherboards, ICs, monitors, and
so on. Even hard disks at VERY reasonable prices.
There's also a newsgroup, comp.sys.apple2 you can read about it. There
WERE some good FAQ pages from the group, but the maintainer threw a tantrum
and low-leveled his drives that held them in the process of leaving the
a2 community over piracy. (There's an ongoing debate whether pirating
software that is no longer commercially available is *wrong* or not,
as well as several pirate sites that pirate anything and everything.)
The other good place for information are the apple2 and apple2pro(grammer)
forums on Delphi. You can get delphi web access for free by hitting their
web site - www.delphi.com.
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Jim Strickland
jim_at_calico.litterbox.com
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