Heh, I like Hackaday, but IIRC the last of my projects that got submitted had a "DEFINITELY DON'T USE THIS AND EXPECT THE COMPUTER NOT TO FRY YOU" disclaimer (mains voltage control). It got reported as "and of course it's safe because the computer controls it." :P Thanks, Jonathan On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 7:09 PM, Neil Cherry via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
On 12/30/2017 05:24 PM, Tony Bogan via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
On Dec 30, 2017, at 11:01 AM, William Dudley via vcf-midatlantic
<vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
I find this somewhat amazing.
https://hackaday.com/2017/12/30/espple-a-wireless-apple-1-on-an-esp8266/
Bill Dudley
Assuming you meant the emulator (looks pretty cool to me!) I find it
amazing that the hackaday writer doesn't know the difference between the apple I and the apple II, which one was released when and in the same year as the pet and trs-80. Tony
Tony, you don't get to use the internet much do you? ;-)
Please don't ask them about difference the Apple II and Apple II+.
The one thing I remember about the Apple II & II+ was how easy it was to understand the various parts. We'd look up the parts in the manufacturing data books and we could figure out what it did. Then exception was the floppy disk controller but there wasn't much to repair on the drives.
I also recall the Apple II manual had the schematics as well as the source code. Or perhaps we had the Sam's Manuals for everything. :-)
Happy New year folks.
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