I'm not a huge emoticon user, but isn't the computer promt >:\ mean the devil?? promts are usually a drive letter then : and \, so you would expect to see C:\ not >:\

Apple IIc Plus did not have an internal HD, therefore there is no Drive C. Also, their prompts were different, although they still werent the same prompt as what is shown on the show.

But the reason there is no "c:\" is because there is no harddrive in the machine. There is no drive "c:", just a floppy drive. Apple II's required a disk to boot up any programs due to lack of a harddrive

As old as that computer was you can't expect it to have a C prompt. In reality, you can change C:\ to whatever you want it to be if you know what your doing.

gotcha, but is >:\ an emoticon for the devil?

it doesn't necessarily have to be a C:\, all I'm saying is that >:\ could correlate to more than just a simple input promt

Yeah... devil with a weird mouth. Yahoo! shows it as >:)

http://messenger.yahoo.com/emoticons.php

As old as that computer was you can't expect it to have a C prompt. In reality, you can change C:\ to whatever you want it to be if you know what your doing.

You can in DOS, but not with an Apple II Plus. Apple II's ran ProDOS.

You can in DOS, but not with an Apple II Plus. Apple II's ran ProDOS.
Sier:
You just gave away how old you are...(as I just did, ProDos, those good old days with only 64KB ROM, no hard drives, no viruses.....those were the days...)

Actually, ProDos was only one of the DOS's run by Apple II's.

The earlier ones were just called "DOS".

I don't remember what the prompts were, but I do remember that it was possible to damage floppy drives (sometimes beyond repair) via software! ahh, the old days.

Don't mean to nitpick, but I believe the characters on the prompt looked like this:

>:|

The final character was a vertical bar, not a slash. This is irrelevant I'm sure, just stating a point.

The person who posted that this specific machine didn't have a hard drtive made me wonder if the reason they used this OLD paperweight of a computer is because that freaking huge magnet couldn't erase the hard drive since it doesn't have on in the same manner as newer computers.

Also, the prompt was >: and then the cursor. No Line, just a blinking cursor waiting for the prompt to be completed with typed command.

Useless trick--Make your own >:\ prompt:

Goto dos... Type "prompt $G:\"
<enter>
type "cls"

Useless trick--Make your own >:\ prompt:

Goto dos... Type "prompt $G:\"
<enter>
type "cls"

hehe, nice call. I had tried doing that (because I'm a geek) last week but I wanted to use the vertical line instead of the backslash. Oh well, backslash will do.

Tech support at work might not like it..haha..oh well.