Re: What has changed in the Apple world last 6 months?

["Frank Townsend" <ftownsen@iamdigex.net>]

You must have gotten a lemon ;-))  Mine worked flawlessly, always.

"Paul Schlyter" <pausch@saaf.se> wrote in message
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> In article <jEsY5.80$ME6.2879@dca1-nnrp2.news.digex.net>,
> Frank Townsend <ftownsen@iamdigex.net> wrote:
>
> As a matter of fact, far too often.  When PC's arrived I found them
> much more reliable.  But on my Apple II+ I frequently had to pull out
> and reinsert various chips or expansion cards, to remove eventual oxide
> on the connectors.

> > My memory is never (and I was probably a heavy user from 1981-1988).  Of
> > course, since you had little practical use of the machines, you don't
> > have much of a sample, but the notion of a General Protection Fault was
> > quite alien to me.
>
> Of course -- the Apple II didn't have any hardware protection mechanisms!
> An application which failed could easily overwrite any part of memory.

Paul, terminate concrete mode:  it was an example.

> My old Apple II+ still works -- sort of.  If I turn it on after
> having left it unused for a few months or so, I must usually first
> pull out and reinsert all expansion cards -- to remove oxides on the
> connectors.  If I don't, it will most likely crash while booting the
> floppy.  But OK, I got it in 1980 so it's 20 years old.

I started mine up last year after 16 years in storage and it worked
flawlessly.  Do you live near the seashore?  Maybe its the salt air ;-))