Very popular in education, especially primary grades. I surplused literally truckloads of these in the early 2000s. Piles and piles of them.
-D > On May 23, 2024, at 7:41 AM, Jim Cathey via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > >> Why? Got some old 5-1/4” floppies to run on it? Don’t forget your SCSI >> terminator!! > > SCSI (SASI, actually) drives weren't really a thing until after the Apple II. > The ProFile > was more their speed. > > The II was enormously popular, and influential. And an extremely elegant bit > of > electrical engineering. As a living museum piece it'd be a good acquisition. > It's > what made Apple, so there's that. I badly wanted one back in the day, but my > budget could not accommodate. Oddly, I never did own one, and have no real > desire to now. My first 'real' (non-kit) computer was an original Macintosh. > Two > floppies and a dot-matrix printer, bought through the university program with > my > brother's help. (I still have it, expanded to 1.5MB and with a SCSI bus. > Somewhere > in storage.) > > In 1982 (?), graduated and newly employed, I had walked into a local > computer store, > primed to walk out with the then-new IBM PC. I left with my money still in > my pocket, > disgusted by the offering. It was a lame-ass copy of an Apple II, but with > an 8088 CPU. > Still an 8-bit machine, crappy graphics. Definitely on the sluggish side. > And with 16kB > of RAM and a _ cassette_ interface? Same as the 1977 Apple II? I never did > own one > of those PC's, either. > > The ONLY thing going for that machine was the name on it. Everything else had > been better done, earlier and elsewhere. > > Engineering was moving fast in those days. Three years more brought out the > Macintosh. > Now _that_ was clearly different, and better, than what was already out > there. I find it > interesting that even so, the IIe remained in production until 1993. > > -- Jim > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
