Re: What's to become of the Apple II?

[dmanzer@wimsey.com (Doug Manzer)]

In article <3293E21A.77D6@oboe.calpoly.edu>, 
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.  

Perhaps you can, but then there's the cost of the development facilities.
Not pennies, in most cases.

> As far as it being a hobby or a microcontroller, I don't see much
> application.

Sigh. You haven't seen (or weren't impressed by) the amazing variety of 
things people have done with the Apple2.

> You can get much more powerful setups for controlling
> circuits/motors/etc as plug-in cards or break-out boxes for the pc  

All of which will cost significantly more than picking up a II from
the local thrift store or yard sale.

> 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.

And we certainly wouldn't want to expose their impressionable minds
to the archaic Model T Ford because it's so alien to what we use now!

Regards, D.M.