bub@rlgvax.UUCP ( Mongo Mauler) (09/11/87)
I've just won a raffle at my company in which I won an old unused IIe that was gathering dust in a storeroom. I don't have any documentation, nor any disk drives. I do have a composite monitor. I would greatly appreciate help and advice from you seasoned users. Questions: Without a disk drive, is there any way I can figure out if it even works? How do I go about adding one or more disk drives? 3rd party drives, if available, would be fine. Cost? Does Apple offer alternatives, such as cassette based storage? What publications do you experienced users enjoy and find useful? What would be a good rudimentary set of manuals or other books I should purchase to get me going? How can I find out about the basics of my system (can I add a color monitor, how much memory do I have, is it 40 or 80 columns, etc)? If anyone reading this is located in Virginia (particularly northern Va), do you belong to or could your recommend users groups? What about very large national users groups? Any hints/tips/gripes/etc will be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Bubba Pearson (Mongo Mauler) CCI Reston 11490 Commerce Park Drive Reston VA 22091