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nostalgic computing
Jun. 23rd, 2010 02:46 pmPossibly against my better judgment, I recently saved an Apple IIc computer (with monitor, printer, and a bunch of 5.25-inch diskettes) from the dump.
I've fired up a couple of the games that came on the diskettes, but I don't have a particular use in mind for this Apple IIc. It lacks the expansion slots that other Apple II models had, so I wonder whether some TCP/IP silliness like a web server or IRC client would be out of the question. Any ideas? If I don't think of something, I'll probably try to find another home for it.
When I was a kid, my family had a Commodore 64 for games and a succession of x86-based PCs for more serious computing. So I only used Apple II machines in (middle) school. Not that I've ever been responsible for a school computer lab, but they must've been so much easier to administer when the computers lacked network connections and persistent storage!
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When I was a kid, my family had a Commodore 64 for games and a succession of x86-based PCs for more serious computing. So I only used Apple II machines in (middle) school. Not that I've ever been responsible for a school computer lab, but they must've been so much easier to administer when the computers lacked network connections and persistent storage!
