Re: "The Apple II is DEAD" - Long Live the Apple II

[dis6218@ultb.isc.rit.edu (D.I. Seah )]

In article <2e333c$701@jadzia.CSOS.ORST.EDU> ballweb@CSOS.ORST.EDU (Brian Ballweber) writes:
>Mark Manning (mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov) wrote:
>: But today's machines?  When they are doing 3D animation on the fly?
>: They're fast enough.
> 
>You miss the point, I was referring to the current generation of MS-DOS users,
>not the machines.  I was wondering if they could find their way around on such
>a setup... Doubtful I bet, since most IBM users i know don't even know what
>an Apple IIe looks like, much less how to use it...

This isn't much of a point, is it? How many Apple II users would know their
way around a mass spectrometer anyway?

>People always talk about how useless it is teaching people with such machines
>as Apple IIes, but I can guarantee you that such knowledge can be most useful
>in the strangest places <ie  like on that mass spectrometer>...

Yes, everybody is special in their own special way. Are we happy yet?
Computer skills are useful no matter what machine they are being taught in,
so long as these skills have lasting and pertinent value...

OBJECTIVE: Seeking fulfilling and demanding position as mass spectrometer
           technician level 1.

EXPERIENCE: Apple IIs

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Dave Seah (dis6218@ultb.isc.rit.edu, PCCDaveS@aol.com)