Amid this rush of new technology ...
Here's a shot of my new toy -- an Apple //e computer with a 65c02 CPU running at 1 MHz, 128 MB of RAM, dual single-sided 5.25" floppies, and a color monitor. The Apple ][ back in the late 70s was the first microcomputer that I had that I did not have to assemble from parts. The hardware runs great.
I have added to it a parallel printer card, a serial card, and a new card (yes, there are still people making hardware for this machine all these years later) that allows you to connect a Compact Flash memory card as a hard disk. Since the max size of a ProDOS volume is 32 Megs, this gives me four disks on a single 128 MB CF card.
A bunch of dedicated people have already scanned in the main documentation -- both hardware and software -- and make the image files available in PDF format. I now have more Apple ][ books than I ever had before.
Software? Most of the Apple 8-bit software is now abandonware. The companies are either out of business or have moved on. There are archives of disk images available on the Internet.
I have found most of what I used before -- assemblers, Pascal compilers, word processors, utilities, and spreadsheets. What I have been unable to find is dBase II for the Apple II. I consulted for many years to both private firms and Government Agencies on dBase and this is the platform and product that started it all. If anyone out there has a copy of dBase II for the Apple II (or knows of one available), I'm interested.
By the way, the first interactive book I ever read was
Portal on the Apple ][. In fact
Amazon still offers the book version.