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

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In article <kcCH2Dt9.4Mo@netcom.com> kc@netcom.com (Dameon D. Welch) writes:
>In article <1993Nov25.021153.28415@trl.oz.au>,
>Andrew Guillaume <a.guillaume@trl.oz.au> wrote:
>| Rick Ewing writes:
>| |Today, Apple Computer quietly took the Apple //e off the price list.  With the
>| |exception of the Apple //e card for LC class Macs, the last Apple ][
>| |computer has faded into history.
>| 
>| Apple Computer took the Apple //c off its price lists many moons ago. But
>| I'm taking my two //c's (one of which has a Chinook HD and an AE ZRamUltraIII
>| card with 1Meg) into the 21st century. Outdated technology ? Bullshit.
>
>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.

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.  =)

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?

Anthony