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Subject: Easy Program Access
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Date: Wed, 15-Oct-86 10:51:00 EDT
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A recent message was asking about getting easy program access (i.e.,
floppyless...) for non-copy protected programs like Appleworks and Dollars &
Sense.  He was thinking about a battery backed memory card.

There are some alternatives.  One is to get a Quikloader card.  This is a
ROM card which goes into the orphan slot 3 of a //e and can be set up to
have many progams burnt into ROM.  These can be either DOS 3.3 or ProDOS
and are no further away at any time than OA+^Q.  They come up instantly.
It's kind of like having DOS or ProDOS in the machine when you first turn it
on.

Another method is to get a 3.5" drive and a good program selector like
ProSel by Glen Bredon.  (This is what I do.)  I have all my commonly
used programs on one utility disk (Appleworks, Applewriter, Disk Muncher,
Copy ][+, ASCII Express, EDASM, Merlin, Sourceror, and more...)  To select
one all I have to do is put the disk in, wait 20 seconds for the menu to come
up, and move the cursor to the one I want.