Re: Apple II-Or Come on people, It's a 20 year old computer

[vakko@wtower.com (Paul Neubauer)]

On Wed, 21 Jun 2000 18:52:23 -0500, Roy and/or Janet Miller
<millers@inetnebr.com> wrote:
>Penman wrote:
>
 [ ..A dandy statemnet about people who USE computers..and how ]
>>
>> Penman
>
>Well said.
>
>Roy

Indeed.

At this page http://www.yallp.com/mumble/apple/
Chris Eslinger shows how to boot from the second drive,
something he tried just for fun.  I recall he once
commented on /. that he still uses a //e as
"it's still the most hackable machine around."

After all this time, and using Word and Word Perfect,
I STILL find AppleWriter was more intuitive.  It never
got in my way.

What do I do today?   Cuss a 32bit 350 MHz system at work...
as I program for a 8 bit embedded device.  Most "PCs" 
(Ha, I have an Apple ][ poster from pre-IBM PC era that
proclaim: Apple ][ the Pesonal Computer) may be intel/ibm
derived.  I suspect most computers are not - they're hidden,
doing trivial things like adjusting fuel mixtures...

(My 8-bitters weigh stuff..  oh, and they multitask, with a
pre-IBM PC language/OS :) 
-- 
Vakko   "...I tried studying audiences -- making notes and
         timing laughs and applause.  And the more I learned
         about audiences the worse my cartoons grew.  So I
         gave up..." - Chuck Jones