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Re: What to demo?
- Subject: Re: What to demo?
- From: The Wizard of Oz <wizard@emeraldcity.gov>
- Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 21:40:26 GMT
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On Thu, 02 Sep 2004 07:03:07 +0000, Wayne Stewart wrote:
> The ApplesBC user group is having a 25th anniversary meeting this
> December and we're going to have a variety of older Apple hardware
> at the meeting. In theory it should have been in March as we had our
> first meeting in March 1979 but December will do. We want to have a
> number of older machines set up and I ended in charge of that side
> of it. For the non Apple IIs I'm thinking of
>
> Apple III
> Lisa
> 128k Mac
> Mac Portable
> Mac II
> Mac IIfx
> Quadra 950
> 6100
>
> I'd also like to demo a thunderscan, either on the Mac or on an IIgs.
> I'm also planning on one one computer running continuous Apple II and
> other early Apple commercials.
>
> For Apple IIs I'm a bit torn A couple members have original Apple IIs
> with serial numbers below 100 but I wouldn't likely be able to plug
> cards into them and boot them up. It's tempting but I'd really like
> to have all the Apple IIs up and running so I'm thinking about a
> working not so early original Apple II of my own.
>
> I was originally thinking of only having a couple of Apple IIs but
> I'm starting to think that just won't do. I want a IIc just because
> it was such a great looking machine. The IIgs as the last design
> and there's graphic and sound hardware and software I can't demo
> on anything else. I'd like to demo a Graphic tablet so maybe a IIe
> would be nice.
>
> We'll be demoing Apple II software and hardware mostly to people that
> haven't seen one in 15 years or have never seen one. What hardware
> and software would look the most interesting to non Apple II people?
>
> Wayne
Here is something you may want to try. Ask the hardware developers in
this group to send some evaluation copies for the meeting. If possible you
could set up a LAN with file sharing and possibly a multi-player game. The
USB card should be popular too. All using current hardware. That should be
a real show stopper.
If it works out, I want pictures and an article when you drop by. ;-)
Later
Mike