Apple II boards

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Wed Jan 23 19:46:15 2002

The things take up lots of valuable space, yet aren't of much value if you
don't learn what you can. You can learn a few things from an Apple-era
computer, but not if you don't pay attention. Just getting a bunch of boards
and trying to run them without knowing what's going on is a sure way to waste
a bunch of space and time, and produce no useful knowledge.

It's true that Apple II sorts of computers are not worth a lot of money. I
bought one with two disk drives yesterday for $8. Of course, I did this just
to get the PSU, which I consider to be the only part worth fiddling with,
nowadays.

Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Smith" <csmith_at_amdocs.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 4:15 PM
Subject: RE: Apple II boards


> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Lawrence LeMay [mailto:lemay_at_cs.umn.edu]
>
> > Thats starting to sound a bit like white-coat syndrome. These
> > computers
> > are not rare artifacts to be hidden away behind glass walls,
> > only to be
> > touched by the neophites in white lab coats, you know. Go ahead and
> > experiment, heck throw the completely wrong hardware in and cause a
> > major short circuit! And in so doing, know that you can
>
> Well, I'd _rather_ not do that. :) It seems kind of a waste when you could
do things right and the world could have one more functional machine.
>
> > always get another
> > apple ][+ or 3 for about $5 (if not for free, heaven knows i
> > keep getting
> > offered the things...)
>
> I hope that they remain that common into the foreseeable future.
>
> > Cmon, what could possibly be less valuable than an Apple ][+?
> > A C64 perhaps...
>
> Possibly, with an IBM peesee XT generally coming in as less valuable than
that.
>
> Regards,
>
> Chris
>
>
> Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
> Amdocs - Champaign, IL
>
> /usr/bin/perl -e '
> print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n");
> '
>
>
>
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