Some of us still have our Apple IIs up and running too.  :)

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 7:23 PM, Ashgrove <[email protected]> wrote:

> This article has suddenly made me nostalgic:
>
> http://lowendmac.com/musings/myportable.shtml
>
> Interestingly enough, these 12-year-old computers are still usable.
> All of them can run several Mac OS up to 10.4.11 (not to mention all
> the Linux distros still available  for them), browse the Internet,
> play and burn CDs and DVDs, and do real work. Not at an amazing speed,
> mind you --but that was easily foreseeable. The amazing, the mind-
> blowing thing is that they still can, and do.
>
> I wonder what we will think, twelve years from now, of the Core i7
> machines of today, and how they will compare to these dependable
> workhorses.
>
>

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