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- We walked over to my Apple II. It
- really looked good sitting there.
- I turned it around and said...
- ^
- "Now, Ms. Novice, you've got a bird's"
- eye view with the keyboard on the left.
- And since this is a special Apple II
- with a transparent top...
- ^
- you can actually see the LOGIC BOARD
- inside.
- ^
- "That's really impressive, Mr. Capslock."
- It looks pretty complicated.
- ^
- "Well, it is. But we'll take it step by"
- "step, and you'll catch on in no time."
- ^
- That's fine. Go ahead.
- ^
- "First, notice the DISK DRIVE. It takes"
- information off a floppy disk or puts
- information on it.
- ^
- But the real action goes on here with
- "all the INTEGRATED CIRCUITS, called"
- chips. They're silicon wafers with
- electronic circuits etched inside.
- ^
- "And this is the big guy, the boss, the"
- MICROPROCESSOR--the brain of the whole
- system.
- ^
- This bunch of chips over here is the
- "read-only memory, or ROM for short."
- ^
- The guys at Apple put information in ROM
- "that stays there all the time, whether"
- the power is on or off.
- ^
- What kind of information?
- ^
- "Oh, things like the Applesoft BASIC"
- programming language. But don't worry.
- You don't really need to know much about
- ROM.
- ^
- Last but not least are the chips that
- "make up random-access memory, or RAM."
- Now RAM is nothing to sneeze at.
- ^
- Why? What's so great about RAM?
- ^
- That's where your information was when
- you had trouble this morning. Let me
- show you what happened...
- ^
- "When the power is ON, your information"
- is in RAM.
- ^
- "But if the power goes OFF, all the info"
- goes away.
- ^
- "Oh, so I've got to make a permanent"
- copy of my work on a disk.
- ^
- Right. You're catching on.
- ^
- "Yes, I think so. But I still don't see"
- what all this has to do with the
- Apple II and me.
- ^
- Ms. Novice was with me all the way so
- far. But now I had to take her a little
- deeper...
- ^
- Press RETURN for the rest of the story
- " or"
- " ESC to go back to the menu."
- ^EOF
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