How II-Apple II, versus //, versus ][

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A lot of folks religiously type the names of the various Apple II models in the various ways that the models were stylised (or in some cases, using the styling that they're most familiar with for all of them-which, i confess, looks really weird to me.)

I consider ][ and // as merely stylings of II-and identical in meaning (much like smallcaps is identical in meaning to lowercase). And given the wildly varying ways that the glyphs are rendered per typeface (often yielding very ugly results), i generally just use II in all cases.

And when I can't do smallcaps (actually even if I can, given how smallcaps works), i type Apple IIgs (as the machine itself renders its name at boot)-not IIGS. (Though i go with the flow on Wikipedia, of producing smallcaps by using markup to shrink capitals, as i don't know of a right way to do it in MediaWiki.)

1 M1= PEEK(-1101) : M2=PEEK(-1088) : M3=PEEK(-1089)
2 IF M1=056 AND M2=096 THEN II$= "APPLE II"
3 IF M1=234 AND M2=234 THEN II$= "APPLE II+"
4 IF M1=006 AND M2=234 THEN II$= "Apple IIe"
5 IF M1=006 AND M2=000 THEN II$= "Apple IIc"
6 IF M1=006 AND M2=000 AND M3=005 THEN II$= "Apple IIc+"
7 IF M1=006 AND M2=224 THEN II$= "Apple IIee"
8 REM Anyone know the id bytes for a IIgs?
9 CALL -936: PRINT II$,M1;" ";M2;" ";M3

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