Re: Battle of the Nostalgics

["Joel" <joelbuckley54.nospam.@hotmail.com>]

I have a //c+ which I've used only a little.
The spec says it's 3.6 MHz.

But some simple tests I've run show it seems to NOT be 3.6 x as fast as a
//e.

I don't know what it slows down for (disk access, sound beeping)
but running a simple Applesoft timing loop didn't show much speed-up.
I was going to write a machine language timing loop to verify its speed, but
never got around to it.

I have ][+, //e, //c, //c+, IIgs.
When I still use one, it's likely to be the gs. Those 5.25 drives are so
slow.
But the ][+ is the only computer I developed an emotional attachment to.

Like a 64 Mustang. Lean and mean. In those days you could crawl inside the
engine compartment.
Now you're lucky if you can reach through the cramped confines and change a
spark plug.

The ][+ was for do-it-yourselfers. You had to be one. In the early days
there wasn't that much out there.
The gs was for canned software, commercial hardware and software.
For users---not for tinkerers, designers, programmers, hackers.