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

["Dr E. Buxbaum" <EB15@le.ac.uk>]

Maurizio Mansueto <maurizio@ee.usyd.edu.au> wrote:

>	But have you seen software such as Labview, matlab etc.... In  
>Fact for engineering, everything (99.999) runs on a PC, uni, linux, 
>Sunworkstations, Solaris. I haven't seen a Mac in an engineering 
>department for about 7 years!
>	When engineers code interfaces in c, they definately start with 
>the pc/ then if its compilcated and realtime use irmx or linux!
>8^)

I am not talking of new equipment bought now. Those of course come with 
state of the art wintel maschines (often as freebies). What I am talking 
about is the 15 year old microtiter plate reader or fast kinetics 
maschine, which were bought together with the then state of the art IIe 
and have been slaving in our laboratories ever since. 

Neither the IIe nor those bits of equipment could be used without each 
other. Equipment, computer and software are mutually dependent: one 
breaks down and the others go too. There has been no upgrade or service 
for years. But if they go down, we have nothing to replace them.