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Re: What's to become of the Apple II?
omar (opualuan@oboe.calpoly.edu) wrote:
: what's the point anymore? it's the apple 2,for god's sakes. you can
: buy microcontrollers for pennies that are equal in power to the apple
: IIe. As far as it being a hobby or a microcontroller, I don't see much
: application. You can get much more powerful setups for controlling
: circuits/motors/etc as plug-in cards or break-out boxes for the pc The
: IIe is so alien compared to what we use now, I don't see why you would
: want to expose a new generation to such an archaic piece of machinery.
Well. I don't have an Apple, but I own a C64, a C128, a PET8032 and a
selfbuilt 6502 computer (Besides a 386, a 486, and a 486DX4/100). This
old stuff is a hobby for me. And the thing is, with this 'ancient' 8 bit
stuff, I can still learn a lot about computers in general. I have found
that too many people sit in front of their PC, knowing nothing besides
point-n-klick and then getting lost with the simplest problems. And even
an 8 bit computer can have up to date software: My selfbuilt OS is a
microkernel multitasking OS, and I'm currently designing a SCSI
interface for it. Only if you just don't understand why people use the
old stuff and not the newest, hottest Pentium something (that isn't so
hot after a few a weeks then...), just let us do it.
Andr�
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