Future serial killer? -D
> On May 23, 2024, at 11:48 AM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > I recall back about then a guy in the company I worked for got one of these > and was running the first version of Lotus 123 (I think, might have been > Visicalc which came out earlier). He was doing budgets and project tracking > and such, it was all quite exotic. It was the first PC in the company and he > was viewed as some sort of guru. His name was Elliott and he was a very > weird guy, quiet boy, always kept to himself... > > --FT > > On 5/23/24 10:48 AM, dan penoff.com via Mercedes wrote: >> 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 archiveshttp://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 archiveshttp://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> > -- > --FT > _______________________________________ > 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
