23 Jan
2002
23 Jan
'02
9:15 a.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: Lawrence LeMay [mailto:lemay@cs.umn.edu]
Thats starting to sound a bit like white-coat
syndrome. These
computers
are not rare artifacts to be hidden away behind glass walls,
only to be
touched by the neophites in white lab coats, you know. Go ahead and
experiment, heck throw the completely wrong hardware in and cause a
major short circuit! And in so doing, know that you can
Well, I'd _rather_ not do that. :) It seems kind of a waste when you could do things
right and the world could have one more functional machine.
always get another
apple ][+ or 3 for about $5 (if not for free, heaven knows i
keep getting
offered the things...)
I hope that they remain that common into the foreseeable future.
Cmon, what could possibly be less valuable than an
Apple ][+?
A C64 perhaps...
Possibly, with an IBM peesee XT generally coming in as less valuable than that.
Regards,
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
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