So I'm cleaning out my old magazine collection and I'm going through old
"Family Handyman" magazines and I run across this article from 1982 on
computers running your household. They mentioned using and actually showed a
picture of an Apple II (my first mac experience) along with some other machines
we've all forgotten about like the TRS80 (which I worked on in high school) and
what looks like an old TI99 (yep had one of those at home though I never did
much more than play games with it. Never could get that speech synthesizer
thing to work right. Come to think of it, I still have that stored away
somewhere, my nephews were playing with it a few years back, they loved the
games.)
At the time they noted the disadvantage to using the Apple was that if it was
controlling the house, it's memory was kept so busy it couldn't do much else.
Interesting to note how far Apple's come.
Beth
| The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
| be March 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
