Re: What's to become of the Apple II?

[msokos1@umbc.edu (sokos mark)]

In article <dmanzer-1411961115360001@ts203.vcr.wis.net>,
Doug Manzer <dmanzer@wimsey.com> wrote:
>The Apple 2/2e was and still is an excellent platform for
>experimentation, circuit prototypes, hardware hacking and general
>messing about. 

Yep, and it's bus is remarkably forgiving if you accidentally stuff, 
say, 7 volts of noise onto the lines (who me? Did I do that? Hey,
we all gotta start somewhere, and I learned on the Apple II...
it was a lot newer then...)

>However something about this situation bothers me; a lot of these
>machines must be thrown out every day, along with tons of
>documentation and software.

I don't have an Apple IIe anymore, but somewhere around here I do have
three books (they even got schematics... remember when books came with
schematics?). Anyone willing to come pick them up can have them. I
seriously doubt that I'll get back into the Apple arena anytime soon.

Repeat after me. I have to REDUCE the number of computers I have around
here, or my wife will kill me. I have to ....
(I don't think she's buying it, no matter how much I repeat the phrase)

- Mark Sokos (msokos1@gl.umbc.edu) Electrical engineer, computer geek (er, 
  programmer), no-talent bum musician, and perpetual student
  http://www.gl.umbc.edu/~msokos1: alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt FAQ, ISA and 
  other bus info, and schematics (mostly audio).