13 Nov
2001
13 Nov
'01
3:23 a.m.
If Sellam insists, then we can agree to disagree,
since I don't think much of
the Apple][, not back in the early days of microcomputers, and certainly not
now, when we can all thank our lucky starts that we have better tools to use.
On the other hand, I love Apple ][s. I spent much of my younger days with
them. I have a fairly reasonable collection of ][ series and clones. I spend
more time with my ][s than with any other of my systems. I love 'em. Yet,
I'm not joining Sellam in insisting that the Disk ][ system was the best thing
on the market.
Then again, I don't join my fellow Apple ][ collectors in claiming that the
6502 was the best processor on the market either. Like all religions, the
true believers will always shout down the heretics.
What the Apple ][ was (including the Disk ][ system) is an example of what
a great hacker can do with limited resources. It wasn't the fastest machine.
It didn't have the best graphics. It didn't have the best disk subsystem.
It had a positively crappy DOS. But it was an incredible hack. Maybe the
best I've ever seen.
Eric