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I wonder what would have been if Apple kept pushing the AppleII line in a much more gradual tech road map. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h4tepFbMso https://
by lucidguppy 9y ago
I wonder what would have been if Apple kept pushing the AppleII line in a much more gradual tech road map.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h4tepFbMso https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h4tepFbMso
In my opinion - computers should still have a boot to basic with a simple interface to vga graphics and passable sound. Something like pico-8 but a better editor with VI bindings. :-)
It's a good thing we have the raspberry pi.
- jacquesm 9y agoThat's a software problem, not a hardware problem. Nothing stops you from creating a 'boot to basic' image from power-on. Whether it would get much traction is another thing. Expectations are rather higher now than they were in the 70's and early 80's. Even a mouse was a pretty rare peripheral in those days (and would set you back some serious money).
- sehugg 9y agoWell, we had the awesome IIGS (and the horrible Apple III :^P)
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- Narishma 9y agoToo bad it was intentionally crippled so as not to create competition for the more expensive (and technically inferior in many ways) Macs of the time.
- fzzzy 9y agoCan you elaborate? I hadn't heard this before. I remember the IIgs being a pretty sweet machine.
- Narishma 9y agoThe main thing I remember being crippled on the IIGS was the CPU clock speed. The 8-bit guy did a video about this a while ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h4tepFbMso https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h4tepFbMso
- II2II 9y agoYou're looking for a New World PowerMac. If you hold down the right key combination while turning it on, you will land in Open Firmware. While quite different from BASIC, it is a programming environment similar to the olden days. And is the Rasberry Pi comment a reference to RISC OS, with its ability to access BBC BASIC by pressing F12 and typing a quick command?