[geeks] Guess What I Found In My Closet

[Lionel Peterson]

Since posting I stumbled upon this archive:

https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_apple

Apparently he is attempting to collect every piece of apple ][ software, but I
haven't had a chance to think thru a workflow that takes "stuff on the
internet" and turns it into something usable on a USB flash drive in my
CFFA3000 installed in my Apple ][e.

Ken (Lionel)

> On Mar 10, 2020, at 22:42, Robert Toegel <rjtoegel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> o;?Ibd have to look but I know Ibve got a bunch of ][ c stuff that I used
in
> school.  Got to be some OS on the floppies.  Need to check them though.
> Usually make copies every few years just in case.  Ibll check them out if
> you want.
>
> Bob
>
>> On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 10:33 PM Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Five years ago, I moved to Texas - before I moved to Texas, I found an
old,
>> fully functional Apple ][e with 2x floppy drives & controller at a church
>> rummage sale. I brought it home, powered it up, and it ran fine. I cleaned
>> the
>> case, then started researching (I was around Apple ][e computers as a kid,
>> but
>> in school we used TRS-80s, and I just never took a liking to the Apple
>> computers for whatever reason. In my research I found a self-published
>> Apple
>> ][ User Manual (like 500+ pages of "stuff" on the early Apples), but never
>> did
>> much more than type in rudimentary BASIC programs.
>>
>> I never touched the floppy drives.
>>
>> In my research I came across the CFFA3000 and bought one. It was a hefty
>> investment for a "toy" computer, but it turned a novelty into a more
>> usable machine. Well, after getting the CFFA3000 card I moved to Texas and
>> never touched the Apple ][e again, except to confirm it still worked.
>>
>> Well, fast-forward to this afternoon, I was digging through my closet and
>> found my CFFA3000 still sealed in bubble wrap, unopened.
>>
>> I went to the builder's website (
>>
http://dreher.net/?s=projects/CFforAppleII&c=projects/CFforAppleII/main.php
>> )
>> and watched a couple videos, and convinced myself I need to get this
system
>> back up and running...
>>
>> But I don't have any Apple ][e disk images, anyone got leads on some good
>> disk
>> images? Any advice setting this up?
>>
>> I plan on putting it in Slot 7,so it can be a virtual hard drive AND
>> virtual
>> floppy drive system, removing the actual floppy controller from my system.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Ken (Lionel)
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