21 Feb
1999
21 Feb
'99
5:07 a.m.
On Sun, 21 Feb 1999, Phil Guerney wrote:
Well, my brown vinyl (pseudo-leather) binder is dated
on the inside front
cover of the manual "5/81" and the disk says "Apple II and II Plus 48k 16
Sector" (C) 1981 Part No. 10938-55100. The reference card is (C) 1979,1981.
Must be newer than the above. All the Visi series stuff I have seen has
always been in brown plastic binders. Max - check the edges of your "leather
binder" - if they are heat sealed, then it is plastic. But if it is really
leather (deluxe edition?), interesting and something to look out for.
Naturally, it's fake leather, with some kind of soft stuffing inside. The
point is that I've seen a black plastic version, and I'm not sure if it's
newer or older. My Visicalc disk has the identical label, but the manuals
say '4/81'. Ha! Beat you by a month! Mine also has the 'Software Arts
Technical Note SATN-18 Programmer's Guide to DIF(tm) A Data Interchange
Format'. It's a developer's guide to hacking Visicalc files. Do the rest
of them have this also?
--Max Eskin (max82(a)surfree.com)