Re: Pre-Macintosh Apple Computers Stink Like Human Waste

["Radium" <glucegen1@excite.com>]

Gregory Weston wrote:
> In article <1147467132.115184.24330@j73g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
>  "Radium" <glucegen1@excite.com> wrote:
>
> > Doug_M wrote:
> > > Radium wrote:
> > > > Pre-Macintosh Apple computers stink like human waste
> > >
> > > You must be a former TI99/4a owner, or was it the Coleco Adam? Wait, I
> > > know, you had the kit version of the TS-1000 (with 16k expansion pack).
> >
> > No. I am talking about the non-macintosh apple computer that came
> > before the Mac and they used those big floppy discs called
> > "mini-floppies". These computers were in my elementary schools from '89
> > - '96. Those computers stunk like human-kakaa.


> In their day, which was distinctly before 1989, the Apple II line was a
> truly phenomenal piece of equipment. It's really not reasonable to
> compare it to something that was 10-15 years newer in an industry that's
> had such explosive growth and declare it crap.

Well, I rate the Commodore and IBM of the 80's as much higher than the
Apple. IMHO, the Windows OSes of the 80s were the most superior of
their time. Of course, my current favorite OS is Windows 98SE.

> > I hate those computers
> > and want to burn them with oxyacetylene flames. Burn them while they
> > are running, playing their stinky cheesy music and scum-quality
> > graphics [some of ran only on a green monochrome screen]. BTW, those
> > old Apples computers -- for some mysterious reason -- did not use any
> > fans.
>
> That would be because they didn't run hot enough in normal
> configurations to require them. Didn't have CPUs that drew more power
> than all the light bulbs in any single room of my house. Early Macs also
> didn't have fans. In both cases, though, Kensington (and ISTR some
> others) made fans that clipped on near the ventilation slots for those
> people that really put a load on their machines.

Okay

> > Those are the f--ked up old elementary-school Apple computers I am
> > talking about. I want them to burn in hell. I want them to suffer. I
> > want to generate errors in those computers by torching their storage
> > units with oxyacetylene fires.

> Did they kill your dog or molest your sister or something?

They were woefully inefficient even for their time. So confusing to
use. So fun to mess with and take frustration out on. I remembers
typing some random keys on one of those computers and it gave a vague
yet frightening error message [I don't remember the exact message
though]. Another time, the image on the screen began to move around in
a crazy manner, pixelize and give the "system ok" -- and sometimes
"kernel ok" -- message in the middle of the screen. In the main screen
[resembling the DOS in MS systems] I would type random keys and there
would be different messages each time -- e.g. "syntax error", "break in
[insert number]" "stopped at [insert number]". I just hated those POS
systems and wanted to seriously alter their codings to produce those
scary yet fun error messages. Anyone who respecfully-uses these sick
CUMputers needs to see a shrink ASAP.

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