The original Apple IIs (before the IIgs) had their own DOS but it was something Apple wrote from scratch and not a clone of CP/M or MS DOS. It had the usual commands to catalog the contents of a disk or execute a program. It was, like many things on the II, very small fast and efficient but had some gaping holes such as the lack of a copy command or folders. You also had to type out CATALOG every time which got old. That's why I used the ampersand trick to make it do a catalog. poke 1014,110 and then poke 1015,165 to make & == CATALOG. So much typing saved that those pokes still stick in my head years later. Yet I still forget the lunch I packed on the the table at home when heading to work. Why is that?
CB Krister Ekstrom wrote: > Hi there. > I think your story isn't boring at all. It's interesting to hear where > people came from before they ended up here. All those old computers > and synths and stuff it's way cool! > Has anyone, by the way, heard of or even used a computer/screenreader/ > speech synth that was called "totaltalk". I have heard it, but i have > never used it. It was the only speech synth i couldn't for the life of > me understand what it said. > A question also to the hard core apple users out there, did the Apple > II have a dos like interface? Did it differ much from MsDos? > /Krister > > > 7 jun 2009 kl. 22.30 skrev Ignasi Cambra: > > >> All this stories are so fascinating...! Many of these computers you >> guys are talking about are way older than me anyway... I started using >> DOS with a spanish screen reader called Habla. Well I think it was >> developed in Spain, but I don't know if anyone else ever tried it. It >> was kind of similar to JAWS for Dos. I used that thing with an >> external synth connected through the serial port. The synth was made >> in Spain too, and it was pretty fancy for the time. Well, actually it >> might not be a spanish synth, I don't know. It had some very very >> sharp braille dots on it that said "Ciberveu". No seriously, they were >> sharp enough that if you tried to read them with too much energy I >> guess they could hurt you and everything! I was 7 or 8 years old by >> then, so I only used Word Perfect and a dictionary that came in some 6 >> or 7 disketes. I even had a really, really loud embosser that I still >> use these days. After that I started using a PC with Windows 98 when I >> was 10 or 11. It had a 1gb HD and 64mb ram. After going through all >> those Windows PC's I finally got a Macbook aluminum and I can't be any >> happier with it... >> Oh well, my story is obviously boring and uninteresting, but somehow I >> wrote it anyway... >> >> Ignasi >> On Jun 7, 2009, at 5:01 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: >> >> >>> Hi folks, >>> I don't know if i have told you my computer history fully and if i >>> had, feel free to skip this mail. >>> I think i am one of the few blind people who actually started my >>> computer experience in a graphical environment and loved it from the >>> start. >>> The very first computer like thing i had was an Eureka A4, ya know >>> those note takers with thermometer, clock, calendar and many more >>> things on them. It had its own variation of Cp/m so it was a command >>> line interface. Then by accident or coinsidence or how one should say >>> it, i and my work mates stumbled upon Outspoken through an ad in a >>> paper. We decided to try it out since a work mate on my job back then >>> had a Mac Se30 with System 7 on it. It so happened that one of >>> rehabilitation people i knew had a copy of Outspoken in a drawer that >>> he had discarded as useless some time ago. I asked if i could borrow >>> it and test it and got reluctant permission. Boy, was i glad when i >>> discovered that not only could i access the Mac, but i could use it >>> just as well as my sighted collegues, with the exception of graphics >>> editing. I got a mac myself, that is first we rented a Mac Classic >>> with 80 Meg hard drive and i thought that "I'm never gonna fill this >>> gigantic hard drive". The experimentations went so well that i got my >>> own Mac a Mac II Vx with 200 meg hard drive. This must have been >>> around 1993 or something. I also had a Powerbook back then. This >>> setup >>> went with me until 1996 or thereabouts when i was more or less forced >>> to switch to PC. Of course i was curious as to what one could do with >>> a PC and Dos so that was one of the reasons i switched. As i had used >>> Outspoken and loved it on the Mac, i decided to try Outspoken for >>> Windows when it came out. It was quite good, but not as good as the >>> Mac version. >>> Time went by and i tried various Windows incarnations, 95, 98 and XP, >>> and now i'm back on the mac again and love it. >>> One thing that i must mention before i finish this longish mail is >>> that the only braille embosser compatible with the mac at that time >>> in >>> Sweden, at least that's what they said, was a big loud thing called >>> the Versapoint, anione remember that one? I never got that one to >>> work. >>> Well thanks for reading this looooongish letter of nostalgia. >>> /Krister >>> >>> >>> >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
