For backup, you may want to transfer via disk or cable to a slightly more
modern system. 128kb? Heck, I had 172 in my II+ Wasn't Gutenberg a fine
program?
The Palm pilot does my calcs now...
tOM
On Thursday, December 04, 2003 at 22:11
Charles Sdunek <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> hmmmm....I still use my Apple //e for my darkroom and photo data (not
> graphically of course), among other things. I love my apple, it never
> crashes, boots up in seconds, I will probably use it another 30 years
> (so long as I can find printer ribbons on ebay and re-ink them a few
> times). 128K ram and no hard drive! yippie!
>
> Really, I just dont want to transfer all of my data and my fathers data
> by hand to a pc. So the //e will stay with the darkroom.
>
> Charles
>
> GeoW wrote:
>
> >Moose,
> >I base my theory of obsolence on most all PC based tools, toys, programs,
> >etc.
> >It's only been barely more than ten years ago that we were all using DOS.
> >What was your storage and memory back then? Would you say that that
> >equipment
> >is still capable of much of anything compared to todays PC's?
> >
> >Now fast forward ten years. Can you even begin to imagine what will be state
> >of the
> >art then? Do you think it work with todays digital cameras? Not likely.
> >
> >I need to think about it some more now.
> >GeoW
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