Re: Apple ii projects for kids?

[Kevin Dady <kevin@hackaday.com>]

On Sep 4, 8:44 am, powe...@macgui.com (Sam Latella) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know of any good apple ii projects for kids be it software or
> hardware based for the Apple IIe or IIgs.
>
> Something simple but still has a learning potential about computers either
> hardware or software.
>
> We are thinking of this year's science far project and would like to show
> case the Apple iie as the center piece, and give it a wow factor!
>
> Basically a blast from the past!
>
> Any ideas would be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Sam

yea, you can squeeze some GPIO out of the motherboard to twiddle
lights out other external systems, but I think you would need a card
on the II (unlike a pc which has a parallel port standard)  and there
was software packages for kids that let you do experiments using
that.

Another one might be to try and digitize voice through the cassette
port or even just a simple software project