[Blindapple] new member and reading archives

[Jayson Smith]

Hi,

I noticed through the message ID of your message that you're using Pine. 
Are you using a dial-up shell account? If so, I could probably find a 
modem somewhere (believe it or not, there are USB modems now) and you 
could send disk images, archives, etc. directly to me, just as in the 
olden days, lol!

Before I continue, I want to say, please don't be offended by any of the 
following questions, I truly don't know what type of equipment you have. 
Do you have a Windows PC or just DOS? Do you have a CFFA3000 on any of 
your Apples? If not, do any of your Apples have a Super Serial card or a 
hardware compatible? As I said earlier, the IIc serial ports are 
compatible, the IIgs ports are not.

I would be glad to image disks you send me, but I really don't want to 
have you send me your only copies of stuff through the mail, just in 
case something happened to them. You might literally have the only 
remaining copies of some of this stuff. Do you have enough blank/spare 
floppy disks that you could make copies of stuff to send to me?

I'm just trying to figure out a way to get this stuff archived and 
preserved. The standard Apple 5.25 .dsk image is 140K, 35 tracks, 16 
sectors. I don't know of a disk image format specific to DOS 3.2 
13-sector disks, or any other oddball disk format.

Thanks,

Jayson

On 7/4/2017 12:07 AM, Tom Brennan wrote:
> Jason, I have an odd situation.  I can't upload any stuff with the isp I'm
> using.  If you can read them we can talk about my directly sending you either
> 3.5 or 5.25 disks of programs themselves.  Have v3.0 and 3.1 of DOS as well as
> several versions of prodos and the gsos Davex version of DOS that APH did.  Also
> have pascal, graforth, pilot, cp/m, and several other operating systems for the
> Apple.  Even have a version of logo I modified to sort of talk although that's
> obviously kind of silly.  Got a lot of that stuff boxed up but can probably dig
> it out.
>
> If anyone's got it, I'm looking for the version of wlrd.talk that was written
> for the pc.  Have I think v3.1 for the Apple but would really like to have the
> pc version.  Used to have it but it seems to have gotten lost.
>
> Tom
>
>
> Tom Brennan  KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP
> web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html
>
> On Mon, 3 Jul 2017, Jayson Smith wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would love, love, love to get my hands on images of software you have,
>> as you probably have some treasures. I hope this can happen somehow,
>> sometime.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jayson
>>
>> On 7/3/2017 4:02 PM, Tom Brennan wrote:
>>> Welcome to the list, Jeff.  I fondly remember the magazine and still have
>>> several of its disks along with lots of programs that came from it.  Still run
>>> that stuff on my Apple and Laser computers.
>>>
>>> Tom
>>>
>>>
>>> Tom Brennan  KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP
>>> web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html
>>>
>>> On Mon, 3 Jul 2017, Jeff Weiss wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>> My name is Jeff Weiss and I just joined the blind apple list.
>>>> I used to publish a disk magazine for blind Apple users originally called
>>>> Apple Talk.
>>>> Due to a problem with licensing Dos for the magazine, I later changed the name to
>>>> A-Talk.
>>>> First, how do I read the archives?  I downloaded some files that end with .gz.  I guess this is some type of zip file, but where can I get the program to unzip the files?
>>>>
>>>> My next question is how do most of you boot your apple disks on the pc?  I have started launching mine with batch files, which makes the process much easier than typing out the entire launch commands.
>>>>
>>>> Also, I think Jason said that there are additional disk images available.  Are they available for download, or directly from Jason?
>>>>
>>>> That's enough for now, and I look forward to comments from other list members.
>>>> Jeff Weiss
>>>>
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