Re: 65020 CPU? Look this...

[et472@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Michael Black)]

"Sean Fahey" (a2fan@hotmail.com) writes:
> Bah! All you whipper-snappers with your ][+, //e, //c and GS boxes! Why back
> in the day, you weren't a real Apple II user unless you were using, well...
> a real Apple II with 16K which is all the RAM a real programmer needs.
> Integer BASIC and assembly are all you need, phooey on Applesoft (who needs
> FP!). And while macho power users are plenty happy with turbo cassette
> drives, I admit my 13 sector floppy is a wonder. Them new fangled 16 sector
> controllers just encourage programmers to write sloppier code!
> 
What a bloated system you had.  Some of us couldn't afford Apple IIs
when they were new, and had to make do.  My first computer, that I got in
1979, was a KIM-1 with 1K of memory, a cassette interface, and a calculator
like readout and keypad.  And no BASIC interpreter.

Even my second system, that I got in 1981, had a mere 8K of memory, and
still no disk interface (not unless I wanted to start spending lots more
money).  That was an OSI Superboard II. 

  Michael