Re: What sort of Apple user are you?

[David Schmenk <dschmenk@gmail.com>]

On Apr 29, 1:45 pm, rtk <oneelkr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 29, 11:39 am, dog_...@macgui.com (D Finnigan) wrote:
>
> > 2.) The Hobbyist
>
> This is definitely me.  I've been using Apple IIs since 1980 at
> least.  I still use it for specific little things:
>
> 1. Tracking books I read (with export to HTML via serial to other
> computers)
> 2. Pretending to be various sorts of serial devices (quite helpful
> when developing code on newer computers)
> 3. Hacking around on occasion when the nostalgia hits.  I'm still
> looking for a "real" use of lo-res graphics :)
>

I guess this would depend on your definition of "real" ;-)

http://youtu.be/QUN5CSWiLaw

I think I'd be #2 and #4 in the original sense of the term "Hacker".
The closest thing I ever came to a user was to dial into Purdue's dual
VAX 11/780 (a whopping 300 baud) to download my programming projects I
completed with Turbo Pascal or the CP/M assembler (for the 8080
microprocessor lab).

Dave...