My Apple ][ plus with a 6502 chip still booting. The "G" "0" "*" on the keyboard don't seem to work. The computer boots to this screen but if I try to plug the floppy disk drive in I do get an error. Cards installed, Language Card, Printer Card, Hayes Micro modem & the floppy drive card. enjoy!

Posted by im_a_jenius@reddit | vintagecomputing | View on Reddit | 9 comments

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Ok_Recognition_1426@reddit

Back then in computing, we had to deal with interrupts - devices generally back then could not share an interrupt - try moving the cards around - Jim

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TG626@reddit

if I try to plug the floppy disk drive in I do get an error.

what error?

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Pic 7 shows the “error” when the floppy drive is plugged into slot 6 pics 8 & 9. I know I am using the word “error” loosely since I don’t know all that much about the different “codes”. When I take the card out then it “boots” again using these word loosely.

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TG626@reddit

Apple's disk II system is brilliant but also stupid, meaning it literally knows almost nothing on its own.

If a CARD is present it proceeds on the assumption there is a drive and that the drive has a disk in it. It doesn't know any better.

No drive, or no disk, or a bad disk, or a faulty card, and the OS continually tries to get "an answer" that will never come. You have to hit ctrl-reset to get to a prompt. (At which point you can't use the disk to save anything because the disk routines are loaded from a disk when booting)

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GeneralTS@reddit

Man, I’ve not seen one in a while. I actually gifted a completely operational setup with the extra drive, dot matrix printer, joysticks, a decent library of software and games.. like “ Zork “.

I programmed with them in Pascal and another language way back in HS. Actually took a CS class during the summer where I was using the Apple 2C and had to program music, have moving visuals and even a bouncing ball track with lyrics.

I can even remember when we got the Apple II G at home. This generation will never fully understand nor appreciate how things were back in the day: having to switch between a stack of floppys in order to operate a single application like “ Print Shop “ or whatever the Word-like typing app was.

fun fact: mom was a typing teacher and had already made me learn how to type and I could type like a maniac; I remember when I was working on a paper for middle school and she insisted that I type it out on the computer and turn a printed copy in as my assignment submission. * I cringed, and tried to explain to her that if I did that I would cause an issue in class and most likely get into some sort of confrontation with a few classmates. ( it got typed out and yes, the prophecy of confrontation was fulfilled):

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im_a_jenius@reddit (OP)

Thanks. I will try that later.