I was first introduced to the Apple IIE in 1984 in 7th grade. It was my first computer experience. I learned how to do word processing with the help of a very robotic sounding voice synthesizer. I was taught how to type in elementary school,but the computer made things much easier. I remember making a typo and finding out how easy it was to just backspace and enter the correct letters, REVOLUTIONARY! Kevin in Lexington, NC still using Apple products Sent from my iPhone
> On May 23, 2024, at 10:49 AM, dan penoff.com via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> 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 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 > _______________________________________ 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
