Re: Future //

[Gabriel Morales <Togega@concentric.net>]

Applemac_G4 wrote:
>
> So, what about the possibility of creating a internet appliance based on an
> Apple //gs?
> 
> Something that runs GS/OS, has a keybord, and small black and white (or
> color for that matter) LCD screen.  Maybe a //gs type laptop that you can
> plunk down on your kitchen counter, use for email, web browsing, with the
> added bonus of running // and //gs legacy software on an internal floppy
> drive.
> 
> If it was possible to produce a bundle like this and sell it for around $250
> or so, it might just work.
> 
> I suspect this is the only form that GS/OS and its associated hardware could
> make a comeback.  The regular computing platforms are just too entrenched,
> and too powerful.

	LOL! Although, in my opinion, it would be much better to start from
scratch to make an Internet appliance, but what you suggest could be
done and perhaps even sell better than anyone might have expected.

	But the whole "advantage" of it being an Apple II and not simply
another machine would be the ability to run all Apple II software, which
would start again making it into more of a computer (what it is) than a
simple Internet appliance, so I would suggest this future Apple II be
what it was meant to be in the first place- a "Home Computer".

	Though this theorizing is all fine and dandy, you're forgetting
probably the most important obstacle in the way- copyrighted Apple ROMs,
and I dare say that with Steve Jobs back at the helm it would be an
especially difficult task indeed to have these released or bought.

	If anyone is interested in a most likely unprofitable, extremely
time-consuming, backwards engineering, though....

Gabriel Morales ;-)