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@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ IIe compatibility card.
 
 One of the things this card could do was emulate something called a
 Workstation Card, which appeared to let Apple II computers access files on a
-Mac file server. This was intriguing; I hadn\'t imagined it was possible.
+Mac file server. This was intriguing; I hadn't imagined it was possible.
 
 And it was also potentially valuable as a way of providing mass storage for an
 Apple II, with the bonus that other computers could easily access it as a
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ means of getting stuff to and from an otherwise isolated machine.
 
 After some experimenting, I discovered that was exactly what it did, and I
 bought an actual Workstation Card for my IIe, because that would be much, much
-cooler. And it appeared that you could even \*boot\* the Apple II into ProDOS
+cooler. And it appeared that you could even *boot* the Apple II into ProDOS
 from the network, which blew my mind. Using AppleShare 3.0 on another Mac as a
 host, I made this happen, and there was much rejoicing.
 
@@ -27,9 +27,9 @@ need an old Mac around. How great would it be if you could just have an
 always-on network drive for an Apple II, with all the storage you might ever
 need, and accessible from other computers on the LAN?
 
-(It\'s true that there were Compact Flash storage cards at the time, and I
-actually bought CFFA #16, but these didn\'t appeal to me quite as much because
-of their relative lack of accessibility on other platforms. I\'d need some
+(It's true that there were Compact Flash storage cards at the time, and I
+actually bought CFFA #16, but these didn't appeal to me quite as much because
+of their relative lack of accessibility on other platforms. I'd need some
 sort of CF extender to get the card outside the machine, then run CiderPress
 in a Windows emulator...)
 
@@ -55,18 +55,18 @@ LocalTalk-to-Ethernet bridge.
 
 What I discovered, after some time, was that a) the version of Linux that
 shipped on that NAS did not include support for AppleTalk networking, and b)
-the easily-installed Netatalk package didn\'t include the components required
+the easily-installed Netatalk package didn't include the components required
 for network boot, which I absolutely wanted.
 
-I wasn\'t terribly Linux-savvy at the time, but I eventually figured out that
+I wasn't terribly Linux-savvy at the time, but I eventually figured out that
 to get network boot support, I would need to download Netatalk and compile it
 myself, from source. Ok. But once I learned that adding AppleTalk support
 overall would require recompiling a kernel for the drive, I kind of put the
-idea aside, figuring I\'d bring it to KFest and hack on it with someone there
-who knows what they\'re doing.
+idea aside, figuring I'd bring it to KFest and hack on it with someone there
+who knows what they're doing.
 
 In the meantime, I decided to see if I could make things work exactly as I
-wanted with a \"proper\" Linux installation. Ubuntu Linux was well-known for
+wanted with a "proper" Linux installation. Ubuntu Linux was well-known for
 its relative ease of use, so I installed that into VMWare Fusion running on my
 (modern) Mac. I installed the Netatalk package, and that worked -- though it
 was still missing the network boot component, and there were other issues like
@@ -74,13 +74,13 @@ password login not working correctly.
 
 So I had to figure out how to recompile Netatalk to make it do what I needed.
 I managed to figure this out after much effort and studying of posts and
-contributions to comp.sys.apple2, but wasn\'t able to get it to actually
+contributions to comp.sys.apple2, but wasn't able to get it to actually
 netboot to ProDOS.
 
 So this led me to comp.sys.apple2, and there met two people who turned out to
 be two enormous contributors to A2SERVER: Steven Hirsch, who wrote much of the
 actual network boot support in Netatalk, and Geoff Body, who knows everything
-about the \"boot blocks\" that get transferred to the Apple IIe or IIgs during
+about the "boot blocks" that get transferred to the Apple IIe or IIgs during
 network startup. Both Steven and Geoff have also helped figure out and work
 around the idiosyncracies of many of the dedicated LocalTalk-to-Ethernet
 bridges, and have been essential contributors to the execution of A2SERVER.
@@ -93,27 +93,27 @@ Linux virtual machine. The first proto-version of A2SERVER was a step-by-step
 guide to manually set it up, as posted here:
 https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.sys.apple2/lkh4hXqmJbE
 
-I could have left it at that, but I didn\'t like it. It wasn\'t all THAT easy
-for a non-Linux person, network boot relied on Apple software from a \"secret
-archive\" and hand-hacked binary code from within the guide itself, and the
+I could have left it at that, but I didn't like it. It wasn't all THAT easy
+for a non-Linux person, network boot relied on Apple software from a "secret
+archive" and hand-hacked binary code from within the guide itself, and the
 final setup was hard-coded to a specific user name. I wanted a version that
 was general-purpose, easy for anyone to install, and which obtained any
 copyrighted software from 100% public, authorized sources.
 
-And which, in a perfect world, could be configured to netboot from \"bare
-metal\" -- that is, a bare computer with nothing but Linux would be able to
+And which, in a perfect world, could be configured to netboot from "bare
+metal" -- that is, a bare computer with nothing but Linux would be able to
 boot an Apple IIe or IIgs with no operating system, software, or even any
 drives at all.
 
-I hadn\'t forgotten about wanting it to run on a NAS, either, but I figured
-I\'d circle back to that, since it was so much easier working in a VM. For the
-time being, what I\'d ship would be both a premade VM, and a complete
+I hadn't forgotten about wanting it to run on a NAS, either, but I figured
+I'd circle back to that, since it was so much easier working in a VM. For the
+time being, what I'd ship would be both a premade VM, and a complete
 installer script for actual Linux installations. And that would be A2SERVER.
 
 Then it was a matter of locating what I could, from anyone I could, to make it
 work. I discovered that the boot blocks and BASIC.SYSTEM -- the essential
-pieces for netbooting ProDOS 8 -- were ensconced with the GSOS \"Disk 7\"
-image available from Apple\'s Older Software downloads page. But that disk
+pieces for netbooting ProDOS 8 -- were ensconced with the GSOS "Disk 7"
+image available from Apple's Older Software downloads page. But that disk
 image was a DiskDoubler self-extracting archive. Fortunately, The Unarchiver
 could uncompress it, and is open-source, and builds on Linux. The disk image
 was actually an HFS disk, which Linux has support for, so I was able to mount
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ IIgs.
 
 Then I had to hack a bunch of stuff together. I wrote mkatinit to create the
 very specific user login files required for netboot; afpsync to simplify
-Netatalk\'s handling of new shared files introduced from Linux; afptype to
+Netatalk's handling of new shared files introduced from Linux; afptype to
 allow setting the ProDOS (or classic Mac) file type of a file shared by
 Netatalk.
 
@@ -142,9 +142,9 @@ necessary patches, and everything else I felt was needed for click-and-go
 server Apple II server setup, such as optional Windows file sharing (since one
 of the goals was easy file interchange with modern computers).
 
-And that was kinda that -- almost. I\'d conquered the IIe, but the real Mt.
+And that was kinda that -- almost. I'd conquered the IIe, but the real Mt.
 Everest was bare metal GS/OS netboot. This was much more challenging: it meant
-I\'d have to get the files out of the ProDOS-formatted GSOS installer disk
+I'd have to get the files out of the ProDOS-formatted GSOS installer disk
 images, with resource forks intact and made usable by Netatalk. This is what I
 wanted to show off when I introduced A2SERVER at KansasFest 2011.
 
@@ -159,23 +159,23 @@ volume as the target. (The CFFA3000, which was also introduced that same
 KansasFest, was absolutely invaluable for this.)
 
 And it worked. In my presentation, I was able to network boot Peter
-Neubauer\'s Apple IIe with nothing but the Workstation Card; and my IIgs with
+Neubauer's Apple IIe with nothing but the Workstation Card; and my IIgs with
 nothing but a RAM card.
 
 Then I came back home. I completed cppo, and it worked, mostly; with that
 done, I then set about writing something to interpret the GS/OS installer
 scripts and cppo the right pieces to the right places. And...it worked too.
-Except that it didn\'t. It all started up, but the Finder had random
+Except that it didn't. It all started up, but the Finder had random
 filenames, the Trash was full when there was nothing in it. It was corrupt.
 Who knows why. I gave up.
 
-I wasn\'t satisfied with not being able to start up a IIgs at all if you
-didn\'t have the installer disks; so I made it netboot into ProDOS 8, from
+I wasn't satisfied with not being able to start up a IIgs at all if you
+didn't have the installer disks; so I made it netboot into ProDOS 8, from
 where you could use DSK2FILE (which the A2SERVER installer script offers to
 download) to convert the disk images to actual disks, which you could then use
 to make an AppleShare startup floppy, which you could THEN use to mount the
 shared volume and use it as a target for a full Network Startup install. Icky,
-and of possible benefit to no one (really, who doesn\'t have GS/OS install
+and of possible benefit to no one (really, who doesn't have GS/OS install
 disks and a drive?), but it was some kind of solution. I packaged up the VM,
 put up these web pages, and decided it was Done.
 
@@ -184,9 +184,9 @@ obtained product. By now, WD had replaced my NAS with the My Book Live, which
 featured a much faster processor, and was based on Debian Linux, which is what
 Ubuntu is derived from. This was a promising starting point. I figured out how
 to compile an AppleTalk kernel module for it. And then I already had these
-turnkey scripts ready to go, so I hacked, and hacked, and...I couldn\'t get it
-to work. I\'d sometimes get gibberish for volume names, and network boot would
-load the boot blocks, and then never stop loading, filling the Apple II\'s
+turnkey scripts ready to go, so I hacked, and hacked, and...I couldn't get it
+to work. I'd sometimes get gibberish for volume names, and network boot would
+load the boot blocks, and then never stop loading, filling the Apple II's
 memory with zeroes until it crashed. (My suspicion is that the big-endianness
 of the PowerPC CPU in the newer NAS may have been a factor.) Fixing that would
 have taken me deep into the packetized heart of Netatalk, which is beyond my
@@ -201,10 +201,10 @@ It was. The install scripts ran with only a little tweaking. I did have to
 compile AppleTalk in the kernel, but eventually I had what I wanted. And it
 was only $35!
 
-I revisited the corrupted GS/OS installation. I couldn\'t put my finger on
+I revisited the corrupted GS/OS installation. I couldn't put my finger on
 what was wrong. But I noticed that the Finder showed a different length on its
 source disk and after copying. So I followed its index blocks, and discovered
-that contained in those were 0000\'s. ProDOS knew to fill blocks with zeros,
+that contained in those were 0000's. ProDOS knew to fill blocks with zeros,
 but cppo was dutifully copying Block 0, the ProDOS boot block, thereby
 corrupting the Finder. I fixed this, and then I HAD IT: Bare metal install
 GS/OS from Linux. Yeah, man.
@@ -218,17 +218,17 @@ Farallon, I came up with a workaround for the AsanteTalk, and Steven Hirsch
 came up with an actual fix for both the AsanteTalk and the Dayna, meaning
 *all* of those bridges are now options for a IIgs owner!
 
-So this was it: bare IIgs (even without memory card, if you\'re OK with ProDOS
+So this was it: bare IIgs (even without memory card, if you're OK with ProDOS
 8) + Raspberry Pi + readily available bridge = Apple II file server. Yeah!
 
 And I discovered that with a USB cable or RPi console cable, you could
-actually log in and control it with ProTERM. With Hugh Hood\'s clever ProTERM
+actually log in and control it with ProTERM. With Hugh Hood's clever ProTERM
 patch for 115,200 bps on a IIgs, I could actually see my Raspberry Pi start
-up...on my Apple II. I can\'t explain how joyous this made me.
+up...on my Apple II. I can't explain how joyous this made me.
 
 And, I wrote ProDOS 8 utilities to switch the IIgs boot mode, which is
 normally only possible under GS/OS.
 
 I could go on and on, but basically the ideas kept coming, and I think I was
-able I was able to polish most of A2SERVER\'s rough edges so that it could be
+able I was able to polish most of A2SERVER's rough edges so that it could be
 fun and/or useful for a few people. I hope you enjoy it!