Re: Apple IIGS to last another 39 years

["Roger Johnstone" <rojaws@es.co.nz>]

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In article <appletalk-0B55D7.03252107012000@news.planet.nl>, Pim Blokland
<appletalk@at.at> wrote:


>In article <20000106181649.01024.00000327@ng-cg1.aol.com>, 
>cturley2@aol.com (Cturley2) wrote:
>
>> it seems by many!  And, when they all wear out and stop working - well,
>
>All too true. My old trusty Woz-machine by now isn't so trusty anymore - 
>it has blown up two power supplies. and one monitor, won't start all of 
>the time and has more and more recurring problems with the 5.25" drive 
>(does not see it at all, or turns on the motor and does not turn it off 
>anymore, etc). Fortunately, the old Woz is not the only GS I have.
>Still, better than the MS-DOS clone I once had, which was completely 
>worn out after three years.
>
>> we still have all those Apple II and IIgs emulators to use on all those 
>> other
>> computer platforms - don't we?
>
>Yes, there is that. Maybe in forty years there'll still be Mac or Unix 
>emulators running on whatever computers we have then, on which we can 
>run our Apple ][ emulators.
>When Apple said "Apple ][ forever", they didn't explicitly say they 
>meant the hardware. They must've referred to the emulated ones.
>
>-- 
>Groetjes, Pim
>
>Same excuse every time


I have heard of people using a Mac to run a PC emulator to run a Mac
emulator, so anything's possible.

p.s. My Woz IIgs still runs fine, but my PC insists it's 2094 and Windows
will no longer boot (almost certainly just a coincidence).


Roger Johnstone
Invercargill
New Zealand
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