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Still Life in the Apple II Community
a2fan writes "A bunch of retro-computing Apple II enthusiasts are decending on Kansas City, MO July 22-27 for the 15th annual KFest. Apple co-founder and Apple I, II designer Steve Wozniak will be there. The Apple II keeps on kicking with Ethernet, TCP/IP, and PCMCIA RAM cards used as hard disks. What is it that keeps such an old platform going?"
You shall not have died in vain!
I'm not quite dead yet, sir!
"What is it that keeps such an old platform going?"
Dateless Friday and Saturday nights, that's what.
The same thing that kept Grateful Dead fans going keeps these guys going.......electric Kool-Aid
WTF? Over?
How old is the Bible?
Why? You put it in the graveyard?
From the title I thought that this was about paintings of old Apple computers.
Schrodinger's cat is either dead or really pissed off...
True...forgetting oregon trail was a big mistake. I played that game for speed. Let the rest of my family die...it will only make me faster! That's how I played...
The anti-salmon
Wouldn't you?
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When it's done, real soon now.
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What is it that keeps such an old platform going?
;-)
What, you've never opened one up before? It's a hampster running in a little wheel.
I'd rather be a conservative nutjob than a liberal with no nuts and no job.
Everybody knows that it's because Apple II runs on Energizer batteries.
10 ? "Bryan loves Sheila";
20 goto 10
Hours of fun in elemtary school with that one.
or there was always the rocket ship blasting off
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Exactly what is an 'asspussy' anyway? And what's sexual about it? Inquiring minds want to know!
These guys remind me of a professor I had in college a couple of years ago that kept two PDP-11's in his office and one at home. He worshipped them. Best hardware ever, he would say.
He was also the same guy that had 365 pairs of pants and 365 shirts and did laundry once a year so maybe that should have shed a little light on his mental state.
Well, now that the Taliban is gone, go ahead! Don't forget to keep Jon Katz posted!
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
What is it that keeps such an old platform going?
Maybe these people just Think Different.
Judging by the easy slashdotting of KFest.org, I'd bet that it's hosted on an Apple IIe as well.
Apple computers will work untill the cows come home?
What is it that keeps such an old platform going?
Simple, pure, unadulterated, virginity. :)
*ducks*
I would expect such blatant racism on Fark, but on Slashdot? Mods please ban this asshole.
The "Adventure" Scott Adams and the "Dilbert" Scott Adams are two different people. The Adventure one posts on the official EQ message boards quite often, and his sig tells people that he's not the Dilbert one.
Whoever stated that signature sizes should be limited to one hundred and twenty characters can just go ahead and kiss my
What is it that keeps such an old platform going?
Actually, it is electricity that keeps it going.
Anyone look at the price of a new Apple box lately? The Apple geeks can't afford new ones!
>Anyone who knows the joy of programming machine
>language for the 6502 knows the answer.
Well, the X86 chip wasn't coded for out of love, piece of shit that it is/was. The Apple didn't fail for technical reasons, and the IBM PC standard sure as hell didn't succeed because of them!
What, no Windows 3.1 community ;-)
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We played it for a week once and still weren't able to achieve any significant rank. It sure
was fun selling Arms and Opium, though.
"Bad joss, Captain. 427,000 pirates are attacking."
"A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself."
"History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme." Mark Twain
Someone needs to get a sense of humor, or perhaps a date...
I read this here a lot, but the sad fact is that many people would really like to get a date, but just aren't able to for some reason. Maybe they're not attractive, or have an introverted personality (which is really anethema to women). So the best these people can hope for is to find an engrossing hobby like this to keep them interested in life.
Hopefully, one day some of these people can invent a fem-bot campanion robot which actually likes being around introverted guys.
The apple II will be around long after Slashdot is bankrupted and sold off to google for $500 (Canadian), which will be in 3 months.
You could rent some storage space to keep all of that stuff at $60/month.
... you insenstive clod! What's this Apple II you speak of?
Apple ][ Forever!
Imagine a Beow... *whack*
Tuus crepidae innexilis sunt.
The Dot-Com bust. Everyone had to hock there SUN E10000's for lunch money. All they had left were the Apple ]['s.
True story. I read it on Slashdot.
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it also manages gradual temperature changes (1/hr) for different stages of brewing
You should make that code available for free !! It would give a whole new sense to the expression "free as in..."
I can hardly stand it!