Re: What do you do with an Apple //?

[TTSH35A@prodigy.com (Phil Abel)]

Scott Moorman <techs@integrated-tech.com> wrote:
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>Please, this isn't an insult in the PC/MAC genre.  I'm just curious 
what
>the Apple ][ user in 1997 does with their computer still.  Thanks.
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>Scott Moorman
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As the others have said, I have a giga-Pentium I use at work for serious 
number crunching.  But it's nice to play around with a little "project 
computer" like the GS or //e evenings and weekends.  Just like the guy 
that drives a new SUV to work every day but keeps an old Camaro in the 
garage to work on weekends, same deal with computers-- I drive my shiny 
Pentium to work every day, but like to play around with the Apple in the 
"garage" on weekends, etc.

There's a feeling of power in that my souped up GS, into which I have 
maybe $800-$900, commands hard drives, CDROM, peripheral cards, etc. 
which I estimate would have run about $7,500+ new.  Case in point-- the 
shrinkwrapped Transwarp GS I picked up at an auction a couple months ago 
for $5.

There's something about the pure simplicity of the system.  It's one 
thing to program Windows '95 so it can fit onto a CD-ROM.  It's another 
thing to write a complete operating system, PRODOS, in 18k.  On the Apple,
 I know what every file does, and what the machine is "thinking".  Not a 
very common feeling under Windows '95.

There's the nostalgia-- I remember living on Apple II BBS's circa 1986 
and later when the Apple II was king and 1200 baud was fast.