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It's not to late. For a few bucks you can buy an Apple II from Goodwill. For 10-100x a few bucks you can buy one off eBay. (There are also plenty of emulators w
by ksherlock 11y ago
It's not to late. For a few bucks you can buy an Apple II from Goodwill. For 10-100x a few bucks you can buy one off eBay. (There are also plenty of emulators which are more practical but lack that 80s feeling.)
- jackhack 11y agoFinding the hardware may be the easy part. You'll also need a DOS boot disk, and a LISA compiler. I fired up my Apple ][ recently and was amazed it still worked -- those floppy disks are amazingly durable. 30+ years of sitting in a footlocker and yet they're still readable. Amazing! There is no substitute for the charm of a flickering greenscreen monitor, the whirr of a 5.25" disc drive, 40 columns of text, a clacky keyboard, and the smell of dust burning off the power supply. Yet I found myself asking "how did I get anything done with such primitive machines?"
- Joof 11y agoWell I hack on an original gameboy; I think that counts :p.