freeborg@rt18.cs.wisc.edu (John Freeborg) (09/20/88)
I inherited an old Apple II+ with 48K, an Applied Engineering 80 column card, and two disk drives. I need to do a lot of word processing and have been out of the II+ scene for years. What is the best word processor that will work with the AE 80 column card? It seems that any popular one I read about will not work on the II+ (ie Appleworks, Word Perfect, etc. etc.). Any advice appreciated - please try to email me and I may summarize to the net. Thanks for any advice! -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ John W. Freeborg freeborg@rt5.cs.wisc.edu johnf@h8001.cae.wisc.edu
SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) (09/20/88)
>I inherited an old Apple II+ with 48K, an Applied Engineering 80 column >card, and two disk drives. I need to do a lot of word processing and >have been out of the II+ scene for years. What is the best word processor >that will work with the AE 80 column card? It seems that any popular one Probably your best bet is the old DOS 3.3 AppleWriter as LOTS of people have it, and you probably can buy a used copy from someone at your local user group. ProDOS can be made to run on a II+ with an 80 column card IF you add a 16K "language card." ProDOS AppleWriter (even AppleWorks) will run on a 64K II+ (though you won't have much room for documents -- about 10K in AppleWorks as I recall). PIE Writer (if you can find a copy somewhere) will work fine in 48K; adding the language card simply allows the editor and text formatter to be in memory at the same time which speeds things up some. Hayen's "Writer" is simply PIE without the mail merge features (there may even be a mail order place with a copy of the Writer around - Hayden went bankrupt and was bought by Spinnaker which, so far as I know, dropped the business titles and kept only the games). Murph Sewall Sewall@UCONNVM.BITNET Business School sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu [INTERNET] U of Connecticut {rutgers psuvax1 ucbvax & in Europe - mcvax} !UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL [UUCP] -+- My employer isn't responsible for my mistakes AND vice-versa! (subject to change without notice; void where prohibited) "We have met the enemy and they are us!" Pogo (Walt Kelly)
david@jc3b21.UUCP (David Quarles) (09/21/88)
From article <1771@puff.cs.wisc.edu>, by freeborg@rt18.cs.wisc.edu (John Freeborg): > I inherited an old Apple II+ with 48K, an Applied Engineering 80 column > card, and two disk drives. I need to do a lot of word processing and > have been out of the II+ scene for years. What is the best word processor > that will work with the AE 80 column card? It seems that any popular one > I read about will not work on the II+ (ie Appleworks, Word Perfect, etc. etc.). WITH SOME MEMORY (128K OR MORE), YOU CAN USE APPLEWORKS. I HAVE A ][+ AND HAVE DONE IT. YOU CAN GET A PRODOS CLOCK AND USE IT TOO. I HAVE NOT TRIED TO USE ANY OF THE TIMEOUT STUFF ON IT. I DON'T THINK IT WILL WORK. YOU WILL NEED A 16K LANG. CARD IN SLOT 0 OR ENOUGH MEMORY.