No offense, but this forum seems pretty pointless.

Let's make a ZX-81 forum too. And add a ZX-80 forum, that would be useful. And what about a ZX Spectrum or Amiga forum :rolleyes:

My ideas about making a Mac mod/overclocking forum is rejected in 5 minutes, the answer is "that is what the search option is for". Yeah, this is really logical.
 
I think a forum sticking to just AppleScript Studio would rule, that way it keeps out all the other cooca/carbon stuff. Of course, then the REALbasic users would demand their own forum. :p

But I agree, this forum is probably useless. It doesn't seem to be very active.
 
DUMB forum. Sorry, but it is. The most I can say is, yes, we have a few Apple IIs kicking around in our science room. OK, I've now said everything of any importance in this entire forum. Now, this forum has no point. We've now answered the question "Did you own/use an Apple II?" so now there's no point.
 
Does anyone have some old apple II's, big target stickers, and high powered rifle's they'd like to donate to this forum ? - perhaps we could have a g4 vs apple II shootout. I bags the green screen. First, we could shoot the apple II's, and then, we could put the target stickers on the creators of this forum and make them run 'round a bit. yeeehaa!


Current Config.
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Fujitsu Parallel Tasking Quantum Supercomputer, 2048 processors (in this universe alone!), 2Tb Ram, Infinitely Expandable Neural Networking Gigaplane Solid State Storage Device, and enough network capacity to download all the pirated porn dvd's in singapore in the blink of an eye.
- And that's just for games, you should see my 'serious' system.

Kin.
 
Apple II is important to the mac history. No Apple II, no Mac. Not only because it's the way they earned their first $$$ and were able to develop our lovely Mac, but mostly because the Apple II was the real first computer made by thinking about their users, and not only to play with technology. The first computer with some kind of OS, sold with a keyboard and that you could connect to any TV set.

It supported Visicalc, the ancester of Multiplan... that became Excel.

The first version supported a limited assembler, the next included Basic... and supported a high level programing language: UCSD Pascal when memory was large enough.
 
I think most people who still use Apple IIs aren't using the II/II+/IIe but rather the IIc or IIgs which are still very usable computers, especially the IIgs which was basically an 8-bit Mac with its own GUI OS. You can surf the net on it, read email, play games (like the first-person shooter, Castle Wolfenstien), connect SCSI drives and many other peripherals - it's also very MIDI capable and great for sequencing audio. And yes, it even had a mouse and ADB ports - in fact the IIgs had ADB before the Mac.
And many, many schools around the world still use Apple IIs for educational purposes. Who needs a dual 1.25 Gigahertz PowerMac running Jag-wire to teach a kid about math and history or how to type? Or for that matter, word processing (or as we called it back in the day - "text editing").

Why an Apple II forum? A Wintel user might ask the same question of us Mac users -- why a Mac forum? Why not?

Current setup:

Apple II+ / 64K RAM (48K built-in and a 16K upgrade card) / ProDOS / 2 Disk II drives / Cricket sound card / Grappler + printer/video card

I guess my thang isn't as big as yours - you win.
 
here here :)

i actually would like to have an apple iic so i can somehow transfer data
i have on prodos formatted 5.25 disks to my mac.

oh well.

Originally posted by Lechman
I think most people who still use Apple IIs aren't using the II/II+/IIe but rather the IIc or IIgs which are still very usable computers, especially the IIgs which was basically an 8-bit Mac with its own GUI OS. You can surf the net on it, read email, play games (like the first-person shooter, Castle Wolfenstien), connect SCSI drives and many other peripherals - it's also very MIDI capable and great for sequencing audio. And yes, it even had a mouse and ADB ports - in fact the IIgs had ADB before the Mac.
And many, many schools around the world still use Apple IIs for educational purposes. Who needs a dual 1.25 Gigahertz PowerMac running Jag-wire to teach a kid about math and history or how to type? Or for that matter, word processing (or as we called it back in the day - "text editing").

Why an Apple II forum? A Wintel user might ask the same question of us Mac users -- why a Mac forum? Why not?

Current setup:

Apple II+ / 64K RAM (48K built-in and a 16K upgrade card) / ProDOS / 2 Disk II drives / Cricket sound card / Grappler + printer/video card

I guess my thang isn't as big as yours - you win.
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