Apple II parts

From: oajones <oajones_at_bright.net>
Date: Fri Sep 4 05:42:50 1998

Jim wrote:
>
> 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.
> --
> Jim Strickland
> jim_at_calico.litterbox.com
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Hi Jim,
Thanks for taking the time to respond to my message. The information you
provided is very helpful. I know what you mean about the software
privacy issue regarding commercial software.

--Alan
Received on Fri Sep 04 1998 - 05:42:50 BST