Re: The Apple ][ was crap

[Bruce.Baker@juge.com (Bruce Baker)]

 >On 12 Jul 2001 06:28:16 -0400, Lord of the Flies (of comp.sys.sinclair
 >"fame")  wibbled on for an age:
 >
 >>      And yes!  _EVERYTHING_ was better than the Tandy 'puters ('ceptmaybe
 >> the Timex/Sinclair,...and the Mattel Aquarius,...not to mention theColeco
 >> ADAM [the joke computers])
 
WEll, I like Coco's they were cheap and you could use two joysticks at a time,
making them fair when playing One on One or road race games, or football games.

I admit to being more interested in games and educational.  There was no
equivalent to Appleworks, there was something like it, I can't recall the name.
 But it had very little memory.  The database could hold maybe 50 things, and
that depended on the size of each entry.  I tried my first attempts at modeming
on a Coco machine.  Until recently there was still a Coco BBS in Houston,
during the peek there were often more Coco boards than Apple 2 boards.
 
But they kept blowing fuses or chips.  Repairs cost more than a new computer.
I had young kids they were definitely not child proof!!

So when a neighbor wanted to sell his unenhanced //e with two disk drives and a
cheap printer for $600, I jumped at it.  (about 1986)  He moved on to a Dos 3.3
wintel machine I believe.

I never had another repair again so soon the Coco was in the closet and was
later all sold off.  That even though I had a friend who worked for Radio Shack
and was always bringing me discarded software and even hardware.  I had quite a
collection.  But the machine was not reliable.

Bruce