[geeks] retro magazine fun (SysAdmin)

Patrick Giagnocavo patrick at mail.zill.net
Wed Nov 17 20:52:13 CST 2004


On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 02:42:44AM +0000, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> > From: Mike Meredith <mike at redhairy1.demon.co.uk>
> > Date: 2004/11/17 Wed PM 05:56:43 GMT
> > To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
> > Subject: Re: [geeks] retro magazine fun (SysAdmin)
> 
> > > Apple never achieved that with the Apple II, probably because all the
> > 
> > It's easy to overlook the fact that Apple was *very* successful with the
> > Apple II just because IBM was so much more successful with the PC.
> 
> I just finished reading Apple Confidential 2.0, and was amazed at the life of the Apple II platform - they sold those things forever! (1979 -> 1986, supporting them to 1993 +/-)

In about 1997 or so, I and some of my brothers and sisters went
campipng.  We went into the camp office, and there was a dual-floppy
Apple IIe, still being used.

--Patrick



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