Re: Uses for an Apple II+

[feiges@picard.cs.wisc.edu (Howard Feiges)]

In article <0096F62A.66196CC0@vms.csd.mu.edu> 2pw1brownt@vms.csd.mu.edu writes:
>Just taking an informal survey:
>
>Does anyone actually use old Apple II+ computers for anything useful?
>
>(Just II+, not IIe, IIc, or IIgs. If you use a I or II great!)
>
>I have some hanging around and am looking for something to do with them
>besides holding doors open.
>
>Ron  (kneusel@msupa.pa.msu.edu)
>--

well, you could hook the I/O port to a photo-resister, and use the same
port to power a small LED.  And then you can take one of those habitrail
hamster wheels and put the photo rsister on the outside of the cage, and
put the led on the inside of the wheel, and then put a piece of paper
on the wheel so that when the wheel spins around it will come in between
the photo reisister and the LED....   then voila....

You got yourself a hamster odometer....

one of the many uses for an apple ][+  (actually, we did this with the 
GS and we wrote a small program and it WORKED (those little buggers run
up to five miles in a night.... amazing))

if you want, I could even send you the program.....

Howard Feiges

feiges@picard.cs.wisc.edu

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