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On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, James Fidell wrote: > Gordon Henderson wrote: > >> There were a few Forth systems for the Apple ][, one called Graforth which >> did 3D wire animations. Don't recall any for the BBC though. > > Acorn did a Forth implementation for the Beeb and I think there was at > least one other. ISTR it was the control language for the "turtle". That was a cut-down Logo IIRC. I remember writing a turtle graphics interpreter for the Apple... Wish I could read those disks... >> Hm. I still have an Apple II, so I guess that gives me a legal copy of the >> ROMs to use in the various emulators that are about. Wonder how I can read >> the boxes of Apple floppys I still have... > > One of the first computers I ever used, was the Apple ][e :) At school > we had one of those and a Sharp MZ80K before the BBC Micros were > released. That would be the Apple //e then .. not the ][ ;-) Mine is a ][ europlus.. The //e's were styled slightly differently and had 128KB of RAM with an 80-column display mode (IIRC) Hm. all that's wrong with mine is the PSU... +12V, +5V... Maybe I can hack a PC supply to work in it... Still no disk drive though - anyone got an old Apple disk drive and controller? (Or an Old 40-track 5.24" SA400 drive, as I have a controller for one of those...) Gordon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html