Re: Apple II-Or Come on people, It's a 20 year old computer

["Deacon Blue" <scavenger@apexmail.com>]

My old car is pushing on twenty years, but refuses to die..

I dont think the majority of Apple II enthusiasts would compare the computer
by todays standard of computing.

Even though many of us daily work with PC-beasts carrying 1 GHz  32-bit
processors and dedicated graphic boards with tremendous force,  it just
is'nt the same as firing up the Apple II with a good game of 'Choplifter' or
doing some word-processing in Appleworks.

We may be a rare breed, but really its no difference than refurbing old cars
(which is by far more expensive also)

As with cars you need petrol;  the 'petrol' for Apple II-series is software
which is available in abundance for the hobbyist thanks to the internet and
user-groups.

Many of the other pre-80's computers did not have this huge software supply,
and subsequently is not 'alive' today, even though they were technically
comparable.










Takeshi Nakajima <takeshi@tirix.org> wrote in message
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> Why is it all you people waste your time with a computer that's
> useless. That has a maximum speed of 2 Megahertz, and that is so grossly
> out of date that Internet Software is still scarse. GET A FREAKING LIFE.
> Move on to the Mac, or the Lisa at least. So what if you can upgrade it
> to "so or so" Megahertz, who gives a shit if you wrote a new OS for the
> thing.