Subj : Re: Apple //e w0rld
To   : Commodore Clifford
From : paulie420
Date : Mon Jun 19 2023 14:58:28

 CC> Apples were where I got my start in school too.  My friend had one
 CC> growing up (my other friend out of our nerd trio had a TS1000, TS2068 and
 CC> then finally an Apple //c).  Of course, when the time came, dad bought an
 CC> Atari due to the games (and his best college friend having a 400).  Of
 CC> course, we went the 800xl route.

Having been playing around with the IIe platform for a few days (lol... I'm goin down the rabbit hole), I can see why the II-series did so well. In fact, even when the first Macintosh systems came out the II-series still lived on for years.

Benj Edwards wrote an article and I think he was right on;
https://www.howtogeek.com/809799/45-years-later-the-apple-ii-still-has-lessons
-to-teach-us/

This was the era of Apple *wanting* us to hack; while we were on C=64s or Atari machines, even the earliest of the Apple II's had 7 expansion slots and anyone could hack together - even hardware... the fact that Apple slam dunked the American school system was the meat, but there was plenty of potatoes to go around.

While it IS rudimentary, like most other micro's of the time, once you get to the ProDOS era and have 4-6 disk drives connected; drives labels are 'volumes' - to call any connected device, just search for its '/Volume' and the Apple II finds the drive... seeks all connected until it sees the volume; at any rate, its been neat seeing how intelligent even these first real Apple systems were.

I spun by yer bbS - it l00ked great, but I idled too long... I'll come back by sir. :P



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