Re: Why an Apple II?

[bartletr@icebox.eielson.af.mil (Romeo Bartlett)]

In article <809375187.26638@contech.demon.co.uk>, sbehrens@contech.demon.co.uk 
says...
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>leed@sfsu.edu (DONALD CY LEE) wrote:
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>>       Late last night, a idea popped into my head for a post on the II 
>>Newsgroups.  I have 2 questions:  Why did you get an Apple II computer in 
>>the first place, and the second one is:  Why are you continuing to use an 
>>Apple II, despite the emergence of new computers, etc......?  The 
>>questions are will sound a bit narrow for those who have used more than 1 
>>Apple II, so if you have for instance, bought a II+, went to IIe, then to 
>>a IIGS, please tell us why.  
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    I bought my first Apple II only a couple of years ago! I had just moved to 
Alaska, Fairbanks area, and my PC's were in my household goods shipment that I 
wouldn't get my hands on for another 2-3 months. I couldn't live without a 
computer that long! So I went in search of a cheap substitute to get me by. 
Amongst old 8088's, & 286's I ran across an old IIe for $350.00 with 128k RAM, 
two floppies, and a monochrome monitor and a little software and talked the guy 
down to $300.00 plus an Epson MX-80 printer, and a 2400 external modem. The IIe 
had a SuperSerial card as well as a Z-80 softcard. Man I have had a blast with 
this machine and fell in love with it. I still use my PC's but not as much. My 
386 has dos/win, OS/2 and Linux on it and I mess with OS/2 & Linux a bit. I now 
have a II+, 3 IIe's and an enhanced IIe and even a III. I plan to get a IIGS 
when I can get around to it because I like the speed and graphics and the IIe 
compatibility. I would like to use it as a bridge between the internet and my 
IIe's since I can download straight to a floppy and avoid the serial to serial 
transfer from the PC. I do as much as I can on my IIe's.