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Appendix
A
Ask
Apple
'This
2ppendix
presents questions frequently
asked
by
new
Apple
owners and lhe :lf1S';l,'efS to those questions_
If
you tu.ve olher
que!itions, ask
your
deller,
people
1.1
an
Apple
user
group,
Of
write
one
of
the
Apple-orientcd
computer
nugniocs.
Can
I
ron
software
for
other
oomputers
on
my
Apple
amlputer?
The
softw::arc that ruru;
on
the
Apple
uses
Ollc
of
Apple's
operating
systems: ProDOS, DOS,
or
Pascal. Software written for
other
computers doesn't necessarily usc these operating systems and
conscqucnLly won't work
on
the Apple, unless you
,mull
a co-
processor
Qrd.
(Sec
Chapler
6,)
You will find,
ho
....
'Cvcr, that most
major
softw:l.re publishers have versions
of
software that
run
on
Apple computers.
I've
beanI
horror
stories
about
people
typing
p;q,'CS
and
page'>
of
infomutJon
and
lhen
h:ning
it
disappear.
How
can
I pr'O"eJJt
this
from
l13ppening
to
me?
Save! Sa\'C
1
Savel E\"ety application
program
has a
way
for
you
10
mnsfer
infomution
from
lhe
computers
memory
to
2 file
on
a
disk.
Once
slored
on
a disk, information is reasonably $arc. Infor-
mation
stays in memory only as long as the
power
is
on
and
the
computer
is
working
properly.
Power
surges,
elearial
failures,
computer
failures,
and
accidentally
disconnected
po'\\-'Cr
cords
are
rare
occurrences,
but
they
do
happen-and
usually
juSt
after you've
entered
half the names from
your
address
book
into a data
base
or
writtcn a brilliant lctter.
By
saving frequently
to
a disk (at least cvery
10 minutes), you
won't
lose
too
much information,
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