Re: Is it too hard to program for the Apple?

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

D Finnigan wrote:
>                                       I'm just looking for something new
> to do. That's the thing about the Apple which I like: it's a small machine,
> but not everything has been accomplished yet. There are still more projects
> to be done.

An unlimited number of things, in fact!

Back closer to the beginning of the computer age, there was a palpable
feeling of optimism and excitement--that anything you could imagine in
sufficient detail, you could accomplish (within the constraints of the
platform, of course).

The doldrums we are currently experiencing are as much a failure
of imagination and enthusiasm as of execution.

And this applies even (especially?) to the modern PC/Mac world, where
a whole generation doesn't even know what a "killer app" is.  ;-(

I've often characterized the Apple II as the last computer for which
all the documentation needed to fully exploit it weighed less than
the computer itself.  It is dry tinder to a spark of inspiration.

-michael

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