Re: What if we designed and built a "32bit" Apple II?

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Jayson Smith wrote:

>On a somewhat related subject to this post, I have a question...
>What causes people to get interested in the Apple II?  I mean, I'm not
>fighting the fact that they do, I think it's great!  But do you think it's
>mostly, maybe somebody sees an IIe or IIgs in a thrift shop or on Ebay,
>remembers when they were a kid at school and that was the computer in their
>classroom and buys it to play with?  Or do some people get into Apples just
>to have something interesting to do?

I expect that nostalgia has a lot to do with it in many cases.

In other cases reported here, the person always wanted an Apple II,
but they were too expensive, etc.

The wealth of useful software has always been important to me, as
the glut of games is important to others.

Then there's the tug of curiosity about getting an old $5 machine
perking again...  ;-)

-michael

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