Re: Mark's website www.appleiiguy.net

["brad" <mrbrad(remove)@ll.net>]

Scott" <scottm9000@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 22:20:34 GMT, Mark Frischknecht <appleiiguy@gmail.com>
> wrote:




quote....

>This might be going off on a tangent but does anyone else aside from me
>think that computers just aren't as much fun now as they were in the 80's

unquote....


this is off topic...but in my humble opinion...girls are not as much
fun...now
as they were in the 80's....ah...to have the 18 yr old drinking age again...
of course those from the 60's really had a blast...alas...with aids etc
those
days are past...


back to prev nerdy apple ii discussion..sorry for the interuption.....

brad
former sysop lost-gonzo.com

(alas my dos 3.3 applenet software by
john penchank(sp?) on an apple ii with 6 floppy drives...and blazing 300
baud auto-ans modem...and nice download area of klingon and playmate
text generated graphics...crap....was better when i actually understood
and could muck with the stuff...prob why i play with apple ii stuff...my
computer/intellectual peak so to speak....oh well....)

(wanders off trying to remember names of some of the more creative
and resourceful young ladies of the 80's era....sigh ...as the song goes
i once was as good as there ever was..but ....now i'm good once.... as i
ever was......)

brad













">
> >Martin Doherty wrote:
> >> Mark Frischknecht wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> I could host them on my web site... www.appleiiguy.net
> >>>
> >>> Mark Frischknecht
> >>
> >>
> >> Mark, I just want to express my admiration for your hoopy website
design.
> >>
> >> Also encouraging to see the younger fellas getting involved with Apple
> >> IIs .. there are a lot of age 40+ boys in the scene.
> >>
> >> It's weird to think that while I was teaching myself Apple Pascal in my
> >> last year of high school, you were busy getting born. Did you have any
> >> direct experience with Apple IIs while they were still being sold, or
> >> did you come to it recently as an interesting vintage platform? If so
> >> what made you choose it over the others?
> >>
> >> Martin
> >I remember my firstt Apple was a IIe my dad bought for $200 from a guy
> >who was upgradinf to a IIgs.. that was when I was 5 or 6.
> >
> >My email address should be appleiiguy@gmail.com... I have a look at the
> >site's source code..
> >
> The first Apple // I ever owned was one my mom bought used for me from the
> c.s.a.marketplace group. Three great big boxes of goodies! It was an
> Enhanced //e. I still use it and have expanded my Apple collection ever
> since. One of the first computer classes I ever took was 4 Saturdays
> learning programming on a ][+. We just couldn't afford an Apple back then
> in 1982.
>
> This might be going off on a tangent but does anyone else aside from me
> think that computers just aren't as much fun now as they were in the 80's?
> It was just great to play around and actually have fun with all the old
> 8-bits. Still have about 25 of them around here. All kinds and love
> learning the ins and outs of all of them.
>
> -- 
> Scott