Subject: Re: apple II and other things
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I've sent mine (Apple ][c) to the closet many, many times, only to find it
back on my desktop next to my iMac and iBook, running some ancient
program...I can still remember my Dad bringing home the machine...What an
exciting night that was..

> From: mfumu@alphalink.com.au (Bill Robbins)
> Newsgroups: comp.emulators.apple2
> Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 10:44:05 +1000
> Subject: Re: apple II and other things
> 
> In article <3936856f.5975482@netnews.att.net>, see.sig@for.email.address
> (Peter B. Steiger) wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 31 May 2000 18:10:23 -0700, Greg Gioia sez:
>>> The Apple 2 is/was a fun and wonderful machine, and so it's only right
>>> that a bunch of folks in the age of the Mac want to go back and relive the
>>> glory days of the Apple 2. We're just a bunch of O.G.'s in here.
> 
> One of the problems with the Apple II line is that the bloody things just
> refuse to die, and I for one have trouble throwing away a perfectly
> functioning machine, even one that's 14 years old, or even 18 years old.
> Unfortunately the monitors and not quite so indestructable as the
> computers.  :-)
> -- 
> Bill Robbins, mfumu@alphalink.com.au