I still have my 2GS and fire it up now and then. I have a monitor
for it as well,, but if you don't need the monitor, the machines,
both the 2GS and the 2C Plus will work just fine without one. I
usually use the 2GS without the monitor connected, 'cause I'm too
lazy to connect it and can't see it anyway. Both of those machines
were the best of the Apple 2 line, IMO. I'd love to have a working C
Plus one day, just for the nostalgia.
On Apr 14, 2007, at 7:42 AM, Gabe Vega wrote:
Oh what I would do to get my apple II GS and II C+ operational.
they are both on a display case in my livingroom. it kills me that
I an't find a monitor for them. because then I'll be in business.
On Apr 13, 2007, at 9:46 PM, Josh de Lioncourt wrote:
The old Apple 2C Plus had a button switch next to the reset key
that could switch the keyboard back and forth between QWERTY and
DVORAK modes.
On Apr 13, 2007, at 4:08 PM, Dan Keys wrote:
Hello,
They even had a QWERTY switch.
On Apr 13, 2007, at 2:59 PM, Josh de Lioncourt wrote:
That info is not entirely corect. As early as 1985 or 1986, the
control key was available on Apple 2E and 2C computers as well
as the open and close apple keys. I used those machines in
school and most of the commands then were executed with the
control key, not the apple keys. That includes the main screen
reader of the day, Textalker for Apple 2, which dated back
further than that.
On Apr 13, 2007, at 2:36 PM, Access Curmudgeon wrote:
question: did Apple always have a full complement of modifier
keys (command,
option, control) all along, or did these get introduced along
the way?
Early Apple II computers had two modifier keys (open and closed
Apple)
which morphed into Command and Option. The control key was
introduced
in 1986 with ADB and the Mac SE and II gs and the growing
popularity
of terminal emulation packages. A year later, function keys
appears.
From the beginning, and to this day, the Command key has invoked
functions, the Option key special characters, and the Control key
terminal characters. More information on wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_key
