Re: [Q] Why Apple2 when we have PC?

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

Benoni C. K. Lee (benoni@encserver) wrote:
: Sorry, I am new here. 
: I want to ask why so many people still interested in
: knowing more about that 48KB+ memory computer while
: we have a IBM PC (or clone) which can do much more
: things?

THINGS I WANT TO DO THAT I CAN DO ON THE PC BUT I CAN'T DO ON AN APPLE ][...
a.  Use it to capture ASCII data on a serial port in the background
    (i.e. for news-wire application)
b.  Run Disney's "Coaster" software
c.  Run the program "Theme Park".

THINGS I WANT TO DO THAT I CAN DO ON A MACINCRASH THAT I CAN'T DO ON AN
APPLE ][...

a.  Run Mosaic or Netscape
b.  Use a TCP/IP connection

That means that everything else I want to do...hypermedia, word
processing, number crunching, telecommunications, desktop publishing,
database management, BASIC programming, 6502 programming...I can do on an
Apple ][.  I'm even thinking about buying a //c so that I can have a
portable machine as well.

Notice that except for (a) under the PC, all the IMPORTANT things I do
with a computer are handled with the Apple ]['s.  The only Micro$oft
program I have to deal with is BASIC; there hasn't been an operating
system upgrade for DOS 3.3 since about 1983; GS/OS is far more stable than
MS-DOS, Windoze, or MacOS/System 7...

What more could one want?  Okay, a GS version of "Coaster" would be nice...

--Dave Althoff, Jr.
(The PC at my one job crashed unexpectedly today while I was on-line via
modem.  The Macintosh at my other job bombed on me while I was running
Netscape.  My GS has never crashed unexpectedly when running comm software!)
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