Re: Latest 1-800-Dentist Commercial users //c Icon ;-)

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

N.N. Thayer wrote:
> On Nov 15, 12:22 am, rob <r...@spamoff.net> wrote:
>
> > On a similar note, a local pharmacy I visited last week was using an
> > Apple //e to print labels on medicine bottles. I noticed this when I
> > heard the old C.itoh DMP running in the background.  The pharmacist
> > loves the machine as it's reliable and very cheap to run.
> >
> > Who says Apple //'s are dead ?
>
>
> Pictures!  :)
>
> There should be a page for sightings of Apple II's still in active use
> (outside personal/hobbyist environments).  I think the Apple II is
> unique in this way; PCs of similar age have usually been supplanted by
> their descendants, and I doubt one would find a C64 or TRS-80 being
> used in such a fashion.

The reason is that they keep running, unlike virtually all of their
contemporary competitors.  They are built like tanks, relatively
speaking, as is the C. Itoh printer mechanism!

-michael

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