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From: TBC101@PSUVM.BITNET (TomShark Collins)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Apple IIe/c stories...
Message-ID: <90017.173600TBC101@PSUVM.BITNET>
Date: 17 Jan 90 22:36:00 GMT
Organization: Penn State University
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A few of these stories reminded me of some experiences with some
Apples...

Mention was made of people listening to their computers "think".  Well,
I built a headphone jack into my IIe and ran it through an amplifier.
It was great fun listening to a program start up, as you could hear data
being read from the drive, the program running, and text being printed
to the screen...

In Junior High, I took an intro to computers class that involved
programming in LOGO and using the PFS series of software (PFS:Write and
PFS:Graph).  April 1st was soon approaching, and I figured I'd play a
little trick on my teacher...  I wrote a BASIC program to simulate an
extremely stripped down version of LOGO.  I then slipped in onto one of
the disks, and let someone boot it up, thinking that they were using the
real thing.  Soon enough, they called the teacher over, complaining that
nothing worked.  He played with it for a while, and finally figured out
that it was a joke, so he control-c'ed it, and typed list.  The joke was
on him though, as all he got was the words APRIL FOOL repeated
indefinitely - I had found a POKE from one of the Beagle Bros. famous
PEEK, POKES, and CALLS chart that caused the first line to list
repeatedly...

And, most recently, I had the chance to watch a computer blow up.  Over
Christmas break, I watched as a friend applied 110v AC to various pins
on an old (non working) IIc motherboard.  What a fireworks show that was
- chips exploding, flames shooting from chips, and even chips that
melted down.  It made a terrible odor, but was quite entertaining...


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Tom "Shark" Collins       Since ICS is comprised of 2 people, my views
tbc101@psuvm.psu.edu      are the opinion of at least 50% of the company.