Re: Ethernet & Internet on Apple 2

["Tim Haynes" <timhaynes@no.spam.please.alumni.uwaterloo.ca>]

"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message
20040626210035.12238.00000770@mb-m01.aol.com">news:20040626210035.12238.00000770@mb-m01.aol.com...
> sca no@spam.com asked:
[snip]

> The joy of the Apple II is that it is still pretty much the way
> that it was ten or twenty years ago--with a few conveniences
> added, like the possibility of adding a solid-state hard disk
> based on flash memory--kind of like an add-on electric starter
> for the Model T.  ;-)

Ahhhh... that explains a lot!  This is why the only person on csa2 who is
capable of implementing a (good and probably 'cheap') VGA adapter card for
the A2, won't do it.  ;-)

> But it's still a Model T, and that's what I love about it.

Sigh...  Good thing Applied Engineering never really felt that way!  To each
their own, I guess.  How much would we have to pay you to develop a VGA
adapter, anyway??  :-)

Cheers
Tim