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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: 7 Dec 93 23:20:12 GMT
- Article-i.d.: jadzia.2e333c$701
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: CS Outreach Services, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA
- References: <2d7tae$56a@news.ysu.edu> <1993Dec2.161236.15658@alw.nih.gov> <2dlbn8$26o@jadzia.CSOS.ORST.EDU> <mark-061293102002@128.157.9.145>
Mark Manning (mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov) wrote:
: Yes, it could. All you should need is a digital to analog converter and
: the proper cables. These sell from about $25.00 to $2500.00 depending
: upon who/what/when/where you get it for the IBM clones. And it would
: probably only take one, not two.
: If you are talking about an IBM PC XT (and not the current ms-dos
: generation of computers), then no - it might take three of them. :)
: The IBM PC XT was much slower than an Apple //e.
: But today's machines? When they are doing 3D animation on the fly?
: They're fast enough.
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...
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>...
- Brian