Re: I love my Apple II

[fl332@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (John L. Graham)]

heh, heh, Chapter 13??? Not hardly. If anything we're doing just
dandy getting our money's worth by not wasting money buying overblown
hardware we don't need. PCs and Macs do a fine job when they're in their
element, and so do our Apple IIs.  Today was a PERFECT example. Before
lulunch I had some new GS code up and running automatically taking data
off of our new near-IR spectrophotometer. The data goes right into
Kaliedieagraph over in the office and out on the HP-LaserJet 4, slicker
than slick. Again, thanks to the simplicity of the Apple II we can get
a new system up to speed quickly and get on with the job at hand. The
computer is a participant in the project, not the focus. It's the nature
of research that we don't do many things that are routine, so canned software
rarely meets our needs. The Apple II's let us easily hack out the code
that does EXACTLY what we want. Some of the stuff we've written has
evolved into some really first class workstation software, particularly
in the areas of spectroscopy, high resolution gas chromatography, and
thermogravimetric analysis.

Whhooops, ramble alert. Anywho, research is a lot of fun, and for the
better part of the last 16 years the Apple II has been a valuable tool
and a lot of fun in itself. 

Have fun!

John