Comments | uberregenbogen: How II-Apple II, versus //, versus ][

uberregenbogen

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

Dec 30, 2009 22:52

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 ( Read more... )

typography, apple ii, vintage, computer

Comments 5

twilight_rodent December 31 2009, 05:19:51 UTC

Unfortunately most people refer any Apple2 products as an old Mac.

uberregenbogen December 31 2009, 06:54:17 UTC

Oh argh! And some of 'em still don't get it even after having it explained to them.

twilight_rodent December 31 2009, 15:29:32 UTC

Most of them do not want to admit that they do not know, and think they are correct and YOU do not know what you are talking about.

uberregenbogen January 1 2010, 00:36:20 UTC

Yup. Good ol' fashioned narcissism. "I don't care if i'm wrong, because i'm not wrong!"

ah ha! uberregenbogen December 19 2010, 09:49:42 UTC

IIgs identification requires a firmware call:

00/0300: 38 SEC
00/0301: 20 1F FE JSR FE1F
00/0304: 6A ROR
00/0305: 85 06 STA $06
00/0307: 60 RTS

Which gets poked in and called on line 10, below.

10 POKE 768,56: POKE 769,32: POKE 770,31: POKE 771,254: POKE 772,106: POKE 773,133: POKE 774,6: POKE 775,96 : CALL 768 : GS = PEEK(6) : IF GS < 128 THEN GS$ = "Apple IIgs as an ( ... )