Re: Pre-Macintosh Apple Computers Stink Like Human Waste

[Gregory Weston <uce@splook.com>]

In article <1147467132.115184.24330@j73g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
 "Radium" <glucegen1@excite.com> wrote:

> Doug_M wrote:
> > Radium wrote:
> > > Pre-Macintosh Apple computers stink like human waste
> >
> > You must be a former TI99/4a owner, or was it the Coleco Adam? Wait, I
> > know, you had the kit version of the TS-1000 (with 16k expansion pack).
> 
> No. I am talking about the non-macintosh apple computer that came
> before the Mac and they used those big floppy discs called
> "mini-floppies". These computers were in my elementary schools from '89
> - '96. Those computers stunk like human-kakaa.

In their day, which was distinctly before 1989, the Apple II line was a 
truly phenomenal piece of equipment. It's really not reasonable to 
compare it to something that was 10-15 years newer in an industry that's 
had such explosive growth and declare it crap.

> I hate those computers
> and want to burn them with oxyacetylene flames. Burn them while they
> are running, playing their stinky cheesy music and scum-quality
> graphics [some of ran only on a green monochrome screen]. BTW, those
> old Apples computers -- for some mysterious reason -- did not use any
> fans.

That would be because they didn't run hot enough in normal 
configurations to require them. Didn't have CPUs that drew more power 
than all the light bulbs in any single room of my house. Early Macs also 
didn't have fans. In both cases, though, Kensington (and ISTR some 
others) made fans that clipped on near the ventilation slots for those 
people that really put a load on their machines.

> Those are the f--ked up old elementary-school Apple computers I am
> talking about. I want them to burn in hell. I want them to suffer. I
> want to generate errors in those computers by torching their storage
> units with oxyacetylene fires.

Did they kill your dog or molest your sister or something?

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