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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?"

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  1. wow man by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Look at the photos.

    A bunch of old fat fucks.

    Woohoo there's some real winners.

    Then again half of slashdot probably looks like that.

    And you thought buying that overpriced mac would make you cool! WRONG! Bwahahah....

  2. When by mattboston · · Score: 0, Troll

    will they bring back the Commodore 64.

  3. But can the Apple II do this? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Roped and Raped...
    I had been lying in the deck lounge chair, just reading a magazine, wearing
    my bikini, when all of the sudden one of the two men jumped me from behind and
    placed a gag across my mouth. With the gag tightly in place he began to wrap
    ropes around my upper arm, and then my wrists, tying them tightly behind my
    back the other one pulled me to my feet and began to tie each of my ankles
    separately to the legs of the deck chair. I was strapped to the lounge chair
    and unable to move, as they stood there and ogled my body. They had ripped off
    my bikini top and left my panties in place, and their hungry hands roamed all
    over my body.
    I couldn't even call for help because almost as quickly as they had
    surprised me and began to time my arms and legs behind me, one of them tied a
    dirty cloth gag around my mouth so that my screams wouldn't be heard by
    anyone. I wondered why they had selected me, and one of them said they had
    been watching me for quite a while and they were going to give me what I had
    been asking for. They claimed I'd been teasingly them from a distance for many
    weeks, but I actually hadn't realized that I been doing that. I immediately
    recognized one of them as being someone who came to then the lawns in the
    neighborhood, and someone whom I had waved to when I saw him in the yard next
    door. But I never thought that I had been leading them on. I had just been
    picking up the mail while dressed as I usually am while out of school during
    the summer break... Highhealed sandals and a small two piece bathing suit.
    But they had thought I was teasing them with my body and now they were going to
    get some of what they thought I had been advertising.
    After talking to each other they decided to untie my legs, but only so that
    they could retie the ropes having me lying on the ground. They shoved me hard
    until I fell to my knees and rolled onto my side in the grass. Then they began
    to tie the ropes wrapping them around my knees and forcing them tighter and
    tighter. I lay there, panic in my eyes, wondering what they were going to do
    next.
    One of them pulled me by the back of my head forcing me into a kneeling
    position, with my back toward them. I was totally shocked when I was that one
    of them had pulled out a camera and was beginning to take pictures of me in
    these terrible poses. What earthly good would taking photos do, and then I
    realized that they would probably use them to blackmail me with. They probably
    know that my father was rich and would pay almost anything not to let pictures
    like these see the light of day. They chuckled while they snapped more
    pictures of me, bound helpless, my bare breasts pointing out in front of me
    teasingly.
    One of them began to say that he knew how much my father would love to see
    the next set of pictures that they were going to take, that the next set would
    be more and more erotic and show the true me... The girl that tantalized all
    the men in the neighborhood. They were going to tell my father that I had
    posed in this bizarre fashion willingly, and I truly loved being a helpless
    victim of passion.
    They tied and untied me, and then retied me in different poses. They had
    me lay back down on the lounge with my arms over my head and my ankles bound to
    the base of the chair. I squirmed and flexed my muscles while I lay there,
    hoping that I could somehow be able to get free, but nothing seemed to work.
    They only tied each rope tighter, until my hands and ankles began to feel
    painfully raw from the ropes rubbing against my sort skin.
    Neither one of them had really made any sexual advances to me yet, but I
    sensed that it was only a matter of time. And within the next few minutes,
    after they had me back on my feet standing on the lawn again, one of them
    unzipped his pants and extracted one of the largest cocks I had ever seen. It
    had a huge purple, angry looking head,

  4. Re:What is it that keeps such an old platform goin by jayhawk88 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Spoken like a true Mac zealot I suspect.

  5. Re:What is it that keeps such an old platform goin by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Ah...stupidity and ignorance, then.

  6. Re:Mod parent up, +1 Ontopic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Back in the Apple II days, the Apple Logo had the gay pride rainbow colors!!

    Is that why you bought one you queer fucking faggot??

  7. Re:Mod parent up, +1 Ontopic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll



    Just because he likes other men's dicks pushed into his rectum and he likes to kiss them when his mouth is full of cum does NOT make him gay.

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  9. ..and going by deadgoon42 · · Score: 0, Troll
    What is it that keeps such an old platform going?

    Boredom... sheer boredom.
    --

    Smeghead every day of the week.
  10. mac problem by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Mac fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac (a 8600/300 w/64 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.

    In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.

    I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Macs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 300 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.

    Mac addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.

  11. Re:What is it that keeps such an old platform goin by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    No doubt... and unlike the bible, the Apple ][ programmer's manual is actually consistent.

    The Bible was written by dozens of people over hundreds of years - what do you expect? I think Apple used a slightly more unified team. And by the way, if you actually read the Bible, I think you will find it is quite a bit more consistent than the crazy, anti-Christian liberals would have you think.

    AC because /. mods are mostly crazy, anti-Christian liberals.