Hi all (again)

2011-03-24 Thread Doug
Thanks for the info on Iomega. Now back even farther. I have a working Apple II e with a duo disk drive (working) and about a dozen or so floppy disks. What I want to know is how to burn disks. I have an AppleWorks disk that I need to put in the drive and take out and turn it over and reinsert it s

Re: Hi all (again)

2011-03-24 Thread dale-gmail
nu to format disks. see: http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/AppleIIeUG.pdf for more information.. dale - Original Message - From: "Doug" To: "Vintage Macs" Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 12:55 PM Subject: Hi all (again) Thanks for the info on Iomega. Now ba

Re: Hi all (again)

2011-03-24 Thread dale-gmail
k or they didn't think it was necessary.) They expect you to use the formatting program on something called a utilities disk. good luck; dale - Original Message - From: "Doug" To: "Vintage Macs" Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 12:55 PM Subject: Hi all

RE: Hi all (again)

2011-03-24 Thread Doug
6:40 PM To: vintage-macs@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Hi all (again) hi; not sure what you have on both sides on the appleworks disk but hopefully some version of prodos is on the first side then: Start up the ProDOS User's Disk. Press F (for ProDOS Filer ) Press V (for VOLUME COMMANDS). Pr

Re: Hi all (again)

2011-03-25 Thread QuoVadis
ress V (for VOLUME COMMANDS). > Press C (for COPY A VOLUME). > there should be entry on the utilities menu to format disks. > > see: >  http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/AppleIIeUG.pdf > > for more information.. > > dale > - Original Message ----- > From: "D

Re: Hi all (again)

2011-03-25 Thread dale-gmail
to you dale - Original Message - From: "Doug" To: Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 8:59 PM Subject: RE: Hi all (again) The thing is once the AppleWorks is up and running I can read things. I can even read a novella I wrote using an Apple III and a daisy whe

RE: Hi all (again)

2011-03-25 Thread Doug
Minw says AppleWorks 1.1 an old timer. I remember it in about 1985. -Original Message- From: vintage-macs@googlegroups.com [mailto:vintage-macs@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of dale-gmail Sent: March 25, 2011 12:51 PM To: vintage-macs@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Hi all (again) o.k. just

Re: Hi all (again)

2011-03-25 Thread dale-gmail
the earliest archive is 1.3 in English - Original Message - From: "Doug" To: Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 6:12 PM Subject: RE: Hi all (again) Minw says AppleWorks 1.1 an old timer. I remember it in about 1985. -Original Message- From: vintage-macs@google

Re: Hi all (again)

2011-03-26 Thread hartonj
I don't think it's terribly hard to get some 5.25" disks. There's definitely a website that sells DS/DD ones, and last I checked there were a fair number of items on ebay. For getting software, this is a great place to look: http://mirrors.apple2.org.za/ http://mirrors.apple2.org.za/ftp.apple.asim