Re: jippie, my apple2+ is still working :-))

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Michael wrote in message <3a206843.14231488@news.uni-muenster.de>...

>i pickt up my old apple][+ in the basement after about 15 years and it
>is still running, and almost all disks are working :-))))
>
>I love this machine :-))) even if it takes 45 sec !!!! for a "for i=1
>to 3000:next" loop :-)))


The scary thing is that there have been situations where even my pentium
would take that long for that loop. A misbehaving thread in the background
gobbling cpu cycles like they were potato chips, and even the new stuff
isn't so fast anymore.

John