On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, Richard Erlacher wrote:
  I'd say, from many years' experience, that it
is probably, and at
 best, as poor as it was straight out of the box.  The consensus back
 in '80 was that, equipped with an 8" drive pair, the Apple ][ was a
 pretty good system, provided one bought the Videx 80x24 display card
 for it. 
I hear people once thought tomatos were poisonous.
Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer Festival
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