Re: Apple IIGS to last another 39 years

[Pim Blokland <appletalk@at.at>]

In article <20000106181649.01024.00000327@ng-cg1.aol.com>, 
cturley2@aol.com (Cturley2) wrote:

> it seems by many!  And, when they all wear out and stop working - well,

All too true. My old trusty Woz-machine by now isn't so trusty anymore - 
it has blown up two power supplies. and one monitor, won't start all of 
the time and has more and more recurring problems with the 5.25" drive 
(does not see it at all, or turns on the motor and does not turn it off 
anymore, etc). Fortunately, the old Woz is not the only GS I have.
Still, better than the MS-DOS clone I once had, which was completely 
worn out after three years.

> we still have all those Apple II and IIgs emulators to use on all those 
> other
> computer platforms - don't we?

Yes, there is that. Maybe in forty years there'll still be Mac or Unix 
emulators running on whatever computers we have then, on which we can 
run our Apple ][ emulators.
When Apple said "Apple ][ forever", they didn't explicitly say they 
meant the hardware. They must've referred to the emulated ones.

-- 
Groetjes, Pim

Same excuse every time