Re: Just got an Apple II -- What to do ?? :-)

["Laine Houghton" <laine@intergate.com>]

"Ringo Langly" <rlangly@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> Hi all,
>
> After doing some web work for a friend of mine, he gave me an old Apple
> II as 'payment' with two working floppy drives and a TON of software.
> Based on the dates and serial number this is an original Apple II from
> around 1979, so now I'm trying to decide what to do with it :)
>
> I'm an old-school computer guy and a collector of older systems, and
> though I used an Apple II in the day at school this is my first Apple
> of that era to own. I have a Mac Classic and I use my PowerMac G4 and
> iBook daily!  I hate seeing my old computers just sit and collect dust,
> but what's some uses for older systems like this?  Most of my old
> systems, like my Commodore Amiga 500, Tandy TRS-80's (have many
> including Model I, Coco2, and Coco3), and even Mac Classic and Mac
> Performa I've used as either serial terminals for my PowerMac or Linux
> boxes or found basic apps or games to use.
>
> Suggestions?  I was surprised to see SO much activity on
> comp.sys.apple2 and with so many Apple II's sold and only one or two on
> EBay at any given time I can only assume there's LOTS of folks still
> using these old systems.
>
> Ideally I'd love to get an RS-232 card so I can do some serial
> communications with my Linux boxes or Powermac, and I've even thrown
> around the idea of a BBS, though that's more novelty and GEEWIZ factor
> there.
>
> Thanks for any ideas or suggestions, and take care,
>
> Ringo
>

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