Re: Which Apple II?

["Chris Alaimo" <cpalaimo@excite.com>]

>how is DOS
> superior to GS/OS? I can read DOS 3.3, ProDOS, MS-DOS, HFS on
> my GS. I can write ProDOS disks up to 1.44 mb. I can write MS-DOS
> 1.44 disks with Peter Watson's MUG!. I can write HFS. I can read
> HFS CD's. Can you? Since when is 64k of ram equivalent to 6 to 8 mb?
> I can have a hard drive with 15 x 32 mb prodos partitions and an HFS
> partition of up to 1.5 gb on a 2 gb drive, and with the proper controller
> I can have 2 of those drives attached externally. Plus I can run most of
> the software you can, and much more. Maybe I got spoiled by the GUI
> revolution, but nonetheless, the GS is everything the II+ is and beyond.
>Anyway, I don't want
> anyone to think I'm against the older IIs, I just prefer more action than
> they deliver.

    Because for me the whole thing with Apple ][ computing is nostalgia,
getting back to basics, and an appreciation for what we take for granted
today as well as an appreciation for the origins of widespread home
computing.  I also love playing with old 8088 XT machines.  If I want to use
a GUI then I have a pentium 4 machine running Windows XP, which has 512 megs
of RDRAM compared to 6 or 8 megs and an 80 gig HD; thus providing more
action than any Apple computer ever could (not including newer macs I
guess.)  I could run any Apple software on an emulator but to me emulators
are not even close to the same thing and I like turning on my new (to me)
apple ][+ and hearing the interference it causes with the tv and all the
sickly clunking noises that the floppy drive makes.  So for me using a
beefed up IIgs kind of kills it.  I wanted the oldest crustiest Apple I
could afford, and thats why I got a ][+.  The fisrt time I got it to play
music I experienced the same feeling I got when I got my first computer (an
XT) to do anything.  I'm sure that I;m going to get flamed for this, but oh
well.
    You know I'm not picking on you, Bill; it's just my opinion.

Chris