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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."
fp for teh lunix fagz!!! kill more blacks!!1111..
Yeah right you Apple weenies. Commodore 64 ownz ya.
IMO: It's 2003 and I can boot up an Apple II Word Processing program right now from a floppy drive and type whatever I want, print whatever I want, and leave the computer on as long as I want, and it doesn't crash, freeze, reboot by itself, etc. If I try that in Windows, I can't boot up and type without worrying about a potential crash, freeze, or reboot that could happen at any time.
Why not switch to Linux and spend 16 hours a day dealing with issues?
Also, on the 'non-proprietary stuff', Macs used to be virtually 100% proprietary -- proprietary networking (AppleTalk), proprietary slots (Apple Bus), proprietary keyboard and mouse (ADB), even Apple's implementation of SCSI was proprietary at one time.
My journal has hot
Dear gentle sirs,
I am a switcher of three months, now a happy Mac user after years of Windows computing that just didn't make sense. I can't believe I waited so long to make the decision! I bought a Power Mac G4 with Mac OS Jaguar and haven't looked back since.
One thing I wanted to express is my desire for scat. Gay shit. I want to be a human toilet. I've been looking for the right nasty little boy who can train me and use me like the brown log shredder that I am-- sit me under a toilet seat and go to town pumping fudge into my mustachioed maw. I thought that by buying a Mac I'd get into the scene, and make some hot hookups with colons packed to the gills in crap worms. So far, however, I've been disppointed.
Mr. Jobs and the executives at Apple, I plead with you to release more information regarding getting into the hardcore underground stool swallowing scene. All I can think about is gobbling down an 18" ass-birth fresh from the fart factory. Mac users popping squats over my face and letting loose with a tempest of farts and raining a hail of turds.
I hope you can help me with this issue.
Thank you.
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.
Apple celebrates you!
I'm smarter than the average bear.