[comp.sys.apple] new AppleII+ user

ix59@sdcc6.ucsd.EDU (kevin carlson) (12/13/87)

Just inherited an AppleII+ with lots of boards and
games and disk drives and etc...
Could someone suggest a book(s) similar to Peter
Norton's "Inside the IBM PC" and "the Fully Powered
PC" for a new Apple user with obviously non state
of the art equipment.
Thank you.
                         Kevin Carlson
                         ix59%sdcc6.ucsd.edu

halp@tcgould.tn.cornell.EDU ("Bruce P. Halpern") (12/14/87)

The _Apple II User's Guide:Second Edition_ is for Apple II+ and IIe. It was 
written by Lon Poole, Martin McNiff, and Steven Cook, and published by 
Osborne/McGraw-Hill in 1983. ISBN 0-88134-104-5. (1st edition was published 
a few years earlier). 

I don't know if it's still available. If it is, it might be a good place to 
start.

In case you want to run AppleWorks, and aren't already setup to do so, 
PLUS-WORKS-][ (Norwich Data Services, Ltd., PO Box 356, East Norwich NY 
11732-0356. tel: 516-922-9584 and 201-679-0594) lets you do it on a ][+
if you have one of a wide range of 80 column cards and one of an 
equally wide range of ramcards (with the minimum being RAM expansion 
thru a 16K card in slot 0). {It also allows ][e owners to users that 
wide array of cards for AppleWorks, thus expanding desktop}.

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kai@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu (12/18/87)

One very good book for learning Apple's is 

	APPLE II USER'S GUIDE
	by Lon Poole
	   Martin McNiff
	   Steven Cook
	Osborne/McGraw-Hill
	ISBN 0-88134-104-5

Mine is the second edition, but I believe there is a third edition out now
that includes PRODOS as well as DOS 3.3.  I still pull this book out
occationally.

Patrick Wolfe
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