LMLARS01@ULKYVX.BITNET (10/15/86)
A recent message was asking about getting easy program access (i.e., floppyless...) for non-copy protected programs like Appleworks and Dollars & Sense. He was thinking about a battery backed memory card. There are some alternatives. One is to get a Quikloader card. This is a ROM card which goes into the orphan slot 3 of a //e and can be set up to have many progams burnt into ROM. These can be either DOS 3.3 or ProDOS and are no further away at any time than OA+^Q. They come up instantly. It's kind of like having DOS or ProDOS in the machine when you first turn it on. Another method is to get a 3.5" drive and a good program selector like ProSel by Glen Bredon. (This is what I do.) I have all my commonly used programs on one utility disk (Appleworks, Applewriter, Disk Muncher, Copy ][+, ASCII Express, EDASM, Merlin, Sourceror, and more...) To select one all I have to do is put the disk in, wait 20 seconds for the menu to come up, and move the cursor to the one I want.
LMLARS01@ULKYVX.BITNET (10/15/86)
Account RRS2F@UOTTAWA.bitnet no longer exists. ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- A recent message was asking about getting easy program access (i.e., floppyless...) for non-copy protected programs like Appleworks and Dollars & Sense. He was thinking about a battery backed memory card. There are some alternatives. One is to get a Quikloader card. This is a ROM card which goes into the orphan slot 3 of a //e and can be set up to have many progams burnt into ROM. These can be either DOS 3.3 or ProDOS and are no further away at any time than OA+^Q. They come up instantly. It's kind of like having DOS or ProDOS in the machine when you first turn it on. Another method is to get a 3.5" drive and a good program selector like ProSel by Glen Bredon. (This is what I do.) I have all my commonly used programs on one utility disk (Appleworks, Applewriter, Disk Muncher, Copy ][+, ASCII Express, EDASM, Merlin, Sourceror, and more...) To select one all I have to do is put the disk in, wait 20 seconds for the menu to come up, and move the cursor to the one I want.