Michael J. Mahon wrote:
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 NadaPong: Network game demo for Apple II computers! Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it's seriously underused."
Case in point: I found one of my II pluses sitting in a mud puddle when the local elementary school cleaned out their storage space. I took it home, let it dry, and fired it up. Recently I wanted to use it as a terminal to my linux box so I hooked it up with AEPro. It started to spontaneously reboot after it got warm so I took it apart to clean the dried mud off by running the motherboard under a faucet. I used a brush to clean off the gunk. Dried with a blow-drier and pushed all the chips back down in their sockets (a few had wriggled up) and it now runs like a champ.
Try that with your MacBook Pro. Dave...