Re: Which 6502 variant to use?

[dalloff@gcfn.org (Dave Althoff Jr)]

Alistair J Ross (mail@ataliross.co.uk) wrote:

: I have an original Monitor /// (phoshpor type green monitor) and 4 disk
: ][s. Pictures are available at http://www.aliross.co.uk/museum if you are
: interested - but I think it is one of the most beautiful retro pieces of
: kit there ever was. No denying that the GS is a wonderful machine, but
: it's a completely different beast.

The indestructible Disk ][, for all the moaning, whining, rattling,
buzzing, and screeching that it does, is the best floppy drive ever mated
to an Apple ][.

The Monitor ///, on the other hand, was an abomination from the day it was
first connected to an Apple ][.  It's built to sit on top of a proFile
which is built to sit on top of an Apple /// (which was so successful that
I am surprised that Apple ever introduced any computer with a "3" in its
name ever again.  How many years passed between the Apple /// and the
Macintosh LC-III?).  It won't sit nicely on a ][ unless you have a stand,
it is dark, its screen is impossible to clean with the glare shield in
place, and if you remove the glare shield with a razor blade, it is
impossible to read.  

The Monitor ][, on the other hand, is a perfect monochrome monitor for an
Apple ][.  And of course, the AppleColor Composite Monitor was the zenith
[Footnote 1] of monitor technology for 8-bit Apple ]['s.

--Dave Althoff, ][.

Footnote 1:  ...even though it was built not by Zenith, but by Hitachi...

--DCA][
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