Re: Golden Apples

2009-06-18 Thread Chris Blouch
While we're geezing about Apple IIs, I remember there was a shift-key mod for the II+ where you would jumper the shift key to one of the game controller buttons since it didn't really work otherwise when you did the lower case text chip mod. Beagle Bros had a little program that would

RE: Golden Apples

2009-06-18 Thread Emmons, Tim
@googlegroups.com Cc: g...@blindwisdom.org Subject: Re: Golden Apples While we're geezing about Apple IIs, I remember there was a shift-key mod for the II+ where you would jumper the shift key to one of the game controller buttons since it didn't really work otherwise when you did the lower case text chip mod

Re: Golden Apples

2009-06-18 Thread Chris Blouch
@googlegroups.com Cc: g...@blindwisdom.org Subject: Re: Golden Apples While we're geezing about Apple IIs, I remember there was a shift-key mod for the II+ where you would jumper the shift key to one of the game controller buttons since it didn't really work otherwise when you did the lower case

Re: Golden Apples

2009-06-07 Thread Peggy Fleischer
I remember playing around with the early Votrax. What I remember is a little embarrassing. WE used to try to make the Votrax cuss. No matter what you typed, it wouldn't say a cuss word. Sounds dumb now but when I was in my teens it was fascinating to me that we couldn't get that synth

Golden Apples

2009-06-06 Thread Gary W. Kelly
Hi, Some of us were around even before the Echo and Cricket. My first Apple was an Apple II-I--from 1977, and I was already out of undergrad school and working before Apple began. Anyone remember the Vocoder, or early Votrax? Yes, I do remember Mountain Hardware, and owned one of their