Re: Student publishes 800-page Apple II computer manual

[Riccardo <rigreco.grc@gmail.com>]

Il giorno sabato 17 novembre 2012 01:50:47 UTC+1, BLuRry ha scritto:
> On Friday, November 16, 2012 12:07:51 PM UTC-6, Sean Fahey wrote:
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> > On Thursday, November 15, 2012 9:54:47 PM UTC-6, Michael Black wrote:
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> > > Actually, you're kind of old for the Apple II.
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> > > The prime time for playing with computers was about when you are sixteen.
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> > > You want one, you get one, you spend all your time with it, you spend the 
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> > > rest of the time reading the magazines and books.  (Of course, no internet 
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> > > to distract you back when the computer was new.)  You dream of programs, 
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> > > or being in a program (I can never remember what I was dreaming), a result 
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> > > When you're older it lessens, other things come along.
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> taxes.  And weddings... and funerals... and then even sometimes children and the other things they do that constitute a total loss of your so-called spare time.
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> -B

My father bought my Apple IIc in 1985 when I was 14 years old :-)