Re: Apple ][ R.I.P. (1977-1993) --It's really over folks!

[kc@netcom.com (Dameon D. Welch)]

In article <1993Nov29.051628.16426@dunix.drake.edu>,
VaxCat <asc002@dunix.drake.edu> wrote:

[ Talking about Apple removing the //e from the price list ]

| >Just to add my $0.02, I plan on keeping tthis Ye Olde Apple][e until
| >they take me away to the funny farm. Now that I've got a SCSI card for
| >this beast, I'll just keep recycling my Mac hard drives to the ][e.
| 
| Bravo Bravo!!!  Yes!  I love these people!
| 
| You know it astounds me that, these days, with the current crop of
| Everything-has-to-be-networked computer professionals, most of your
| typical elitist Mac Quadra and 486 box users can't see the utility
| of recycling technology.  We're SUPPOSED to reuse old tech in
| economically viable ways!  At work, when we decomission some old 286
| box it doesn't go out the door, it goes on a table and becomes a
| print queue monitor or is used for doing relatively 'non-essential'
| backups.  That's common sense.

Considering what was paid for the stuff, might as well get as much use
out of the stuff as possible.

| My Apple IIe, with the addition of an AppleCat and Cat Answering
| Machine, is going to become my new super-duper answering machine when
| my roomie moves out and takes his cheap japanese one with him.  =-)
| Plus I can use it, with Cat's Meow, as a really wild telephone and
| phreak out my friends.  =-)  No we don't use the OTHER features of
| this modem anymore because then someone will come take us away.  =)

How does that work? Sounds really interesting that an Apple ][ can be
an answering machine <grin>. I might do that when I get my own place
unless I decide to use the thing for my BBS. <grin>

| Oh the other Apple II+ and the OTHER Cat will go on the OTHER phone
| line and answer incoming calls there...but won't take messages...
| merely redirect callers to my voice line.  =-)
|
| And the machines will STILL be set up for OTHER uses anytime I want
| to use them.  Isn't ingenuity great?

More power to you! It'd be interesting to hear what some of the other
apple2.fiends used their stuff for. Mine is just a overglorified
terminal right now, but that's more due to my situation than anything
else.
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