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[norman.dodge@techall.wa.com]

 N> omar (opualuan@oboe.calpoly.edu) wrote:
  > : what's the point anymore?  it's the apple 2,for god's sakes.  you
  > can : buy microcontrollers for pennies that are equal in power to
  > the apple : IIe.  As far as it being a hobby or a microcontroller, I
  > don't see much : application.  You can get much more powerful setups
  > for controlling : circuits/motors/etc as plug-in cards or break-out
  > boxes for the pc  The : IIe is so alien compared to what we use now,
  > I don't see why you would : want to expose a new generation to such
  > an archaic piece of machinery.

AF> Well. I don't have an Apple, but I own a C64, a C128, a PET8032 and
  > a selfbuilt 6502 computer (Besides a 386, a 486, and a 486DX4/100).
  > This old stuff is a hobby for me. And the thing is, with this
  > 'ancient' 8 bit stuff, I can still learn a lot about computers in
  > general. I have found that too many people sit in front of their PC,
  > knowing nothing besides point-n-klick and then getting lost with the
  > simplest problems. And even an 8 bit computer can have up to date
  > software: My selfbuilt OS is a microkernel multitasking OS, and I'm
  > currently designing a SCSI interface for it.  Only if you just don't
  > understand why people use the old stuff and not the newest, hottest
  > Pentium something (that isn't so hot after a few a weeks then...),
  > just let us do it.

I have to agree with Andri an 8-bit computer has allowwed me to learn
about the internals of my machine.  Already a 486 is dead.  After only a
short time on the market.  Also many people knowing very litle except to
point and click and then getting totally lost if they have to enter
something on the computer from the keyboard.  If their system goes
gunnysack they have no idea how to fix it.  The PC architecture just is
plain archaic in my estimation.

norman

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