Re: [Q] Why Apple2 when we have PC?

[jdb8042@tam2000.tamu.edu (John Donald Baker)]

In article <D78y3G.qG@hkpu01.hkp.hk>,
Benoni C. K. Lee <benoni@encserver.en.polyu.edu.hk> wrote:
>Sorry, I am new here. 
>I want to ask why so many people still interested in
>knowing more about that 48KB+ memory computer while
>we have a IBM PC (or clone) which can do much more
>things?

More of what?  It depends on what you need/want to do.  In my case,
PClones and Macs <spit> don't offer me any significant advantage over
my trusty Apple ][ machines (Franklin ACE 1000, platinum //e, and most
recently a 64K ][+).

I realized that the vast majority of what I do with computers is write
papers for school, telecommunicate and explore the innards of computers
for their own sake.  For these, Apple ][ machines (and CP/M boxes of which
I have several--my Apple ]['s included) are ideal machines to use.
I have little or no interest in games (except logic puzzles and pinball).

I've hated Macs <spit> with a passion since I first saw one.  The damned
GUI just serves to get in my way and prohibits me from using my own mind.
I swear I feel my I.Q. dropping the closer I get to one of these brain eaters!

The PClone's only saving grace is that OS/2 is shipping.  Windoze has been
a joke from the beginning, but only Bill the Gates is laughing.  Unfortunately,
the resources required to run anything on a PClone are always inadequate by
last week.

Apple ]['s and CP/M machines have always represented elegant solutions to me.
The limited resources of the machines require skill and cleverness to squeeze
phenomenal functionality into the software--skill and cleverness that has all
but disappeared in today's bloated resource-hogging PClone/Mac <spit> software.

>I also got a ][+, with 3 drives, more than 100 ][+ floppies,
>and a wildcard too. All of them are functionable, although
>without casing. I had store all these beneath my bed long
>long time ago.
>
>The reason is I got no serial I/O port and no parallel I/P
>port to get data.

Then why don't you get one?  It's easy and cheap these days.

>Please advice,
>Benoni Lee.


Apple ][ machines are still viable computing platforms, even today.  It
just depends on what really need to do.  I may end up getting some kind
of PClone, but it will be a notebook machine running OS/2--simply because
I want the portability.  For all the real work I'll continue to use my
Apple ]['s, CP/M boxes and my Amigas.


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