carbide@egine.com wrote:
Michael Black wrote:Yes, people who bought Apples a few years later as an appliance likely have no special memories of those days, at least not enough to want to have one now. They wanted the end use, and when they could get something better they got it, and the Apple II to them is as stale as their first IBM XT or whatever (and that sort of person may have gone through quite a few computers over the decades, as they kept upgrading to keep the appliance current).I agree. I don't have any fond memories of doing spreadsheets or word processing on any particular platform. What I remember fondly is playing games. Maybe that's why the grups are gone and the young 'unsare over represented.
I remember pure delight when I finished my first Visicalc spreadsheet for doing my federal and state income taxes. Ah, the exhilaration of changing a number and recomputing the entire thing in a fraction of a second! -michael New, faster SUDOKU v2.0 solver for Apple II's! Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it's seriously underused."