Re: Pre-Macintosh Apple Computers Stink Like Human Waste

["Radium" <glucegen1@excite.com>]

Timberwoof wrote:
> In article <1147542503.916013.187970@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>,
>  "Radium" <glucegen1@excite.com> wrote:
>
> > Gregory Weston wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > Well, I rate the Commodore and IBM of the 80's as much higher than the
> > Apple. IMHO, the Windows OSes of the 80s were the most superior of
> > their time.

> Well, hey were the only Windows OSes of the '80s, so that makes sense.
> Good thing you didn't say that Windows 1 and 2 were better than
> Macintosh, else I'd have called you a raving lunatic.

In 1991, Windows 3.0 was surely better than Macs.

> > Of course, my current favorite OS is Windows 98SE.

> Oh, you are a raving lunatic. Windows 2000 is much better. That was the
> epitome of Windows development. They screwed it up again in Windows XP.

Even Windows ME is better than XP. XP sucks ass. M$ made a big mistake
is switching to their NT-based shiaat.

> > > > 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.
> >
> > Okay
> >
> > > > 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?
> >
> > They were woefully inefficient even for their time. So confusing to
> > use. So fun to mess with and take frustration out on. I remembers
> > typing some random keys on one of those computers and it gave a vague
> > yet frightening error message [I don't remember the exact message
> > though]. Another time, the image on the screen began to move around in
> > a crazy manner, pixelize and give the "system ok" -- and sometimes
> > "kernel ok" -- message in the middle of the screen. In the main screen
> > [resembling the DOS in MS systems] I would type random keys and there
> > would be different messages each time -- e.g. "syntax error", "break in
> > [insert number]" "stopped at [insert number]". I just hated those POS
> > systems and wanted to seriously alter their codings to produce those
> > scary yet fun error messages. Anyone who respecfully-uses these sick
> > CUMputers needs to see a shrink ASAP.

> No, tell us how you *really* feel.

What are you talking about?

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