However, as late as around 1995 to 1997, my IIe was quite heavily used, once I discovered the joys of telecommunications via my 2400 baud modem and my school's Unix shell account. I had quite a time surfing the web viz Lynx, reading/posting Usenet messages via Tin and reading email via Pine.
It was just fun to be on the web, and using a IIe to do it.If it weren't for a COBOL class I was taking at school, I probably would not have picked up a PC.
With the advancement of the web these days, obviously the IIe and a Unix shell account doesn't do as well as it did in the past.
However, with the announcment of Contiki, I am tempted to pick up a used IIe somewhere and an Ethernet card. I just want to experience the joy of a direct connection to the Internet via the IIe.
Again, I won't be able to see graphics, or buy anything off of Amazon. But, this just goes to prove the IIe, despite being 20+ years old can still do a lot of things modern computers can do. That is why Apple II's (and other retro machines) are still being used. :D
Don acctforjunk@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi, I used to have an Apple II+, then a IIe. It was my first computer. I liked it at first, but noticed how nice the PCs were getting, with faster processors and nicer graphics. This was in the late 80s/early 90s. The last couple days I've started getting all nostalgic and downloaded AppleWin, been looking at pictures and reading about old Apples on the Internet. I ran a few programs I used to use on the AppleWin emulator and thought it's really cool how it emulates a II perfectly. But then I realized why I quit using the Apple IIs. Nice machines for their time, but unfortunately, terribly outdated. So my question is, what are you using yours for? You obviously have a newer computer to post things on the web. Are you just playing around with it or using it for productive things?