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Aug 05, 08 - 02:15 pm Comment from: iWill

All together now!

Aug 05, 08 - 02:18 pm Comment from: ken1w

I always thought using the Apple IIe/IIc as the basis for a small and cheap text-based PDA-sized computer would be an excellent idea.

If this actually happens, all those old 8-bit Apple II programs, such as the original AppleWorks, become valuable again.

Aug 05, 08 - 02:19 pm Comment from: ElderNorm

Actually, I think these guys have an idea. How much computer do you really need to view the internet, print out, and type and enter data. An iPhone can do most of the work and this computer does not even have to make calls. Just make it simple.

Just a thought.

en

Aug 05, 08 - 02:38 pm Comment from: loganson

Wait a minute. The Mac came out when this guy was 3. And he spent all this time with an Apple II?

Apple up $6.47 after a sluggish start. Keep moving up!

Aug 05, 08 - 02:55 pm Comment from: Crazylegs

maybe this is what Oppenheimer was talking about when he said Apple will deliver products with amazing technologies at price points the competition just won't be able to match...

Aug 05, 08 - 02:56 pm Comment from: HMCIV

I'd shell out for an upgraded Apple II.

@loganson
My HIGH SCHOOL kept a fleet of Apple IIs through the late 90s. I have every confidence the 27 year old guy touched an Apple ][ during computer class.

Oooh, I wonder if they'll upgrade Logo Writer!

Aug 05, 08 - 03:04 pm Comment from: Mr. Reeee

At that price, they'd be forced to use slave labor for assembly, no doubt.

Aug 05, 08 - 03:17 pm Comment from: s

@Mr. Reeee "use slave labor"
You mean the graduate students?

Apple // forever!!

*sniff*

Aug 05, 08 - 03:28 pm Comment from: G4Dualie

Great.

Now I can look forward to letters from Mr. Mogamma's ten year-old son speaking of his father's immense wealth and why I should help them all to flee to the US.

Aug 05, 08 - 03:30 pm Comment from: G4Dualie

@old timer

That was Apple /// and Apple ][.

Aug 05, 08 - 03:48 pm Comment from: OBill-Wan Kenobi

there's already been a handful of web browsers developed for a2's. gs/web, contiki, spectrum, etc. and lets not forget the super nes was based on the 65C816.

Aug 05, 08 - 03:49 pm Comment from: Sir Gill Bates

Being able to type on the cheap is all well and good, as long as you can read. First things first.

HA HA! Eat that Microsoft! The tipping point has begun! You know the saying, 'As with the poorest, impoverished villagers in Africa, so goes the world.'
...or it is something like that

Aug 05, 08 - 04:14 pm Comment from: Grifterus

I have an original Apple II, from 1979.

My little treasure, hehehe!!

I'm a nerd

Grifterus ..sounds like you saved the machine so you could sell it and have money for have a retirement

Aug 05, 08 - 04:23 pm Comment from: Lurker_PC

@ Crazylegs - ROTFLMAO!

Peace.

Rudimentary web access on an Apple II? Yikes. Talk about World Wide Wait. Hope they don't hit a page with Flash.

I'm more concerned with getting rudimentary web access on my TV. Fsck the kids.

I think we should give al qaeda old computers that run Windows. The war will be over within a month.

Aug 05, 08 - 05:43 pm Comment from: Sir Gill Bates

rws,

Or give them iPhones. They would either be having too much fun or too much aggravation to mess with anyone.

Can you even GET 128k memory chips and 1mhz processors anymore?

Being able to type on the cheap is all well and good, as long as you can read.

And can get food.
And water.
And shelter.
And electricity.
And Internet access.

And not get your family butchered by the local junta for having any of these...

MW: help. Indeed.

@loganson

You artard the apple II came out in the early 80's, if you had a brain and call yourself a computer person you would know that.... dimwit

Aug 05, 08 - 07:22 pm Comment from: Sir Gill Bates

basic needs,

Exactly.

Aug 05, 08 - 07:24 pm Comment from: Sir Gill Bates

"artard' ???

That's how I always thought of Picasso.

Huh? These kids don't make sense. They say "my generation" when talking about the Apple II. What the hell? I am 41 and that was MY generation. Or is it hip now to claim you were there when the personal computer revolution started? Heck, I even programmed the Z80 after playing with my Slime Compound.

If this actually happens, all those old 8-bit Apple II programs, such as the original AppleWorks, become valuable again.

Ah yes, the old days...

Beagle Bros. Software (they had THE coolest product catalogs!)

Bard's Tale

Wasteland

VisiCalc

ShrinkIt

FID, COPYA, MUFFIN (for us real geezers!)

Oh great. Now I will get ten million MORE spam messages from every impoverished country in Africa asking me to deposit money in their bank account to get the millions their husband left them.

Aug 05, 08 - 09:40 pm Comment from: Sir Gill Bates

Lladnar,

Those things are SPAM?!? Uh oh.

I thought somebody was already doing this with C64s?

@Afib:

Actually, the Apple ][ first was on sale in 1977.

Better to look up facts before you go calling people names and end up looking like a fool.

A 15" MBP, a 17" PB, a souped up dual G4 Quicksilver, a 3G iPhone, a 1.5G iPod and 2G iPod Shuffle, a TC (all still in daily use more or less)....

But, couldn't they just buy an old Pentium/PII/PIII system for a couple of bucks and put linux on it? Wouldn't that be easier,provide a much more powerful system with better and colour graphics plus a wealth of existing applications and therefore much more useful?

It would sure as hell be better than dumping that toxic junk in landfill.

I love Apple, but this project is just plain goofy.

1. Buy Apple IIs on eBay for $8.
2. Sell Apple IIs to third-world countries for $12.
3. Profit...50%!