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Celebrating 26 Years of the Apple ][
jgoeres writes "June 5th is the 26th Anniversary of my first favorite fruit-flavored computer. In honor of this, the Baltimore Sun is running Part One of a two-part interview with Steve Wozniak. When The Woz speaks, I listen. Perhaps it's blind hero-worship, but he seem to embody everything good & stable that his partner lacks. Don't forget to give the man props for his mad Tetris sk1llz, too."
Well, even the first Acorn BBC computer was quicker, despite its use of the same chips . :)
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I never started on an Apple ][, I started with the //e, but before that, the Vic 20 and a whopping 3k of RAM. At school, we had //e's to play with, and being the geek I was, I quickly began to learn to program them. Soon enough, I had ripped the intro sound from Castle Smurfenstein and had it playing every time I turned on the computer with one of my disks. The days of fun, and computing and the emergence of software piracy. Ahhhh....the elite days of computing when all you had was some....err....what were those black square things called? Oh yeah...floppies....what ever happened to them? Do computers still USE those?
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NUBus is an IEEE standard
Was an IEEE standard. It's been withdrawn. Besides -- name 3 other machines NOT produced by Apple that is NOT an Apple clone that uses NUBus. I bet you can't name one. Just because something is an IEEE standard doesn't mean it's an industry standard.
Face it, Macs were very, very proprietary until the PowerMacs appeared with their PCI buses, AGP video, and standardization on USB, firewire and ethernet.
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