Re: Support "obsolete" techno

[Scott.Alfter@skunkworks.genesplicer.org (Scott Alfter)]

In article <3779632@f10.n209.z1>,
John L. Graham <John_L._Graham@adbbs.antioch.edu> wrote:
>At work every one of our Macs and PCs have been back to the shop at least
>once, sometimes for the darndest things, while not a single one of our Apple
>IIs has had a failure, some as old as 15 years. I was carrying a IIe up the
>elevator a few days ago with the head of our electronics lab. I looked at him
>and said "I know, I know, it's old." "True," he replied, "but if it breaks at
>least you can fix yours."

Kinda like an old car, isn't it?  There's not much that the average grease
monkey can't fix in most cars built before the mid-80s or so.  Likewise, the
8-bit Apple IIs are built mostly with "standard" (74LSxxx, etc.) parts and
only a couple of custom chips that are still somewhat available.  (The IIGS
uses a greater number of custom parts, but that's somewhat unavoidable with
that machine's extra complexity.  At least it's not as bad as my clone...I
think the motherboard in my clone only has five or six chips (including the
486SLC-33 CPU) and is barely big enough to hold the expansion slots and the
chips.

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