> 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
