trailing edge memories

[cornelio@san.rr.com (L. Cornelio)]

Our II web page gets a few visitors who leave msgs on their  Applel memories.
I thought I'd share this recent one:
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My feedback: Well done on the Trailing Edge Lab, appropriate technology
for an appropriate use!

I chanced upon this while re-living Apple IIGS memories... a private
school I attended in Form 1 & 2 (11-12 yr.old) - Southwell School,
Hamilton, New Zealand - where we had a IIGS in each class. My favourite
memory is of Zany Golf (EA) and the Finder-like app which a few of us got
going off 3.5" disks we found lying around - the machine had been used
solely in IIe mode until that point. The cheerful clatter of the 5 1/4
drives sticks in my mind. Also the electric shock I got off a screen power
socket one day while moving it.

But the best moment was finding in a IIe book what the little white scoket
inside the machine was for (some of us had removed the lid while noone was
around.) There were these things called annunciator outputs which I hooked
up twisted pair cabling to, pushed it through a car antenna and soldered
red and green LEDs on the end. I now had a BASIC-programmable, two-colour
pointer. Coupled with a Kodak Datashow I set up a 'slide presentation' in
1992 on Global Warming, graphics programmed in BASIC, which I think was
pretty good for a 12-year old, and I don't think I've done anything like
that since.
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