Re: Applecrate II on Slashdot

["N.N. Thayer" <nnthayer@hotmail.com>]

On May 3, 4:29 pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
> nyder wrote:
> >http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/05/03/1827247/AppleCrate-II-App...
>
> > Your famous Michael J. Mahon, grats on your site possibly getting
> > slashdotted.  =)
>
> Thanks--I just found it before getting into csa2!
>
> I notice that many of the comments are way "off the beam", but
> some seem to get my motivation very well.
>
> It's a little like reading a bunch of young mechanics talking
> about carburetors and how they think they work.
>
> It is nice to see some people being reminded that hardware hacking
> used to be about soldering, not Verilog.  ;-)
>
> -michael
>
> NadaNet 3.1 for Apple II parallel computing!
> Home page:  http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon/
>
> "The wastebasket is our most important design
> tool--and it's seriously underused."

I always wonder what it would be like if, somehow, there was a titanic
resurgence of public interest in the Apple II (how that would happen,
who knows), and Apple II resources accustomed to low traffic were
suddenly bombarded: A2Central exploding with news, csa2 assaulted with
technical questions, Asimov's bandwidth bills going through the roof,
Syndicomm raking in cash, Juiced.GS going from quarterly to weekly,
AppleWin and ADTPro's developers being screamed at with feature
requests, Woz being called upon to elaborate on things he hasn't been
seriously grilled about in decades.

Would there be culture clashes?  Differences in design philosophies
laid bare?  Stark amazement from veterans as Apple IIs were hauled out
and put to uses they'd never imagined in all their years of
tinkering?  Sudden, violent, diverging evolutions of the Apple II
architecture, carried out by worldwide armies of nerds?

I can dream, can't I?  :)