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Re: "The Apple II is DEAD" - Long Live the Apple II
- Subject: Re: "The Apple II is DEAD" - Long Live the Apple II
- From: ballweb@CSOS.ORST.EDU (Brian Ballweber)
- Date: 14 Dec 1993 00:16:13 GMT
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: CS Outreach Services, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA
- References: <2dlbn8$26o@jadzia.CSOS.ORST.EDU> <mark-061293102002@128.157.9.145> <2e333c$701@jadzia.CSOS.ORST.EDU> <1993Dec9.032453.19370@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
D.I. Seah (dis6218@ultb.isc.rit.edu) wrote:
:>You miss the point, I was referring to the current generation of MS-DOS users,
:>not the machines. I was wondering if they could find their way around on such
:>a setup... Doubtful I bet, since most IBM users i know don't even know what
:>an Apple IIe looks like, much less how to use it...
: This isn't much of a point, is it? How many Apple II users would know their
: way around a mass spectrometer anyway?
I was referring to people being able to use the computer setup, not the mass
spectrometer specifically...
:>People always talk about how useless it is teaching people with such machines
:>as Apple IIes, but I can guarantee you that such knowledge can be most useful
:>in the strangest places <ie like on that mass spectrometer>...
: Yes, everybody is special in their own special way. Are we happy yet?
Dunno, apparently you are...
: Computer skills are useful no matter what machine they are being taught in,
: so long as these skills have lasting and pertinent value...
This was my point as stated above...
- Brian