[Blindapple] new member and reading archives

[Tom Brennan]

I am using da shell through a university but they've blocked zmodem, xmodem,
ymodem, kermit, and ftp so I really can't upload anything into it.

I have a //gs but somewhere I do have a super serial.  Also have a Laser 128ex.
Have an old win98 machine and an xp machine but no internet for them.  Have a
running dos machine but no internet for it.  I'm typing on a Mac right now.  I
do have a cfa3000 but have never messed with it.

kTom


Tom Brennan  KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP
web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html

On Tue, 4 Jul 2017, Jayson Smith wrote:

> 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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