Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucla-cs!rutgers!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!unlinfo.unl.edu!hoss!greg From: greg@hoss.unl.edu (Lig Lury Jr.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Modem usage in applesoft basic (sorry) Message-ID: <1991Apr20.185853.11390@unlinfo.unl.edu> Date: 20 Apr 91 18:58:53 GMT References: <9104200147.AA05353@apple.com> <14756@darkstar.ucsc.edu> Sender: news@unlinfo.unl.edu Organization: University of Nebraska - Lincoln Lines: 38 Nntp-Posting-Host: hoss.unl.edu Organisation: GBBS/ACOS Sysop Support unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) writes: >MQUINN@UTCVM.BITNET writes: >>The Apple II was originally designed to be used WITHOUT drives. The Mac >>can't do a darn thing without'em. > Oh COME on! Didn't the tape drive (i.e. any cassette player) >exist from day 1? > > You -have- to have some way of saving stuff. It's completely >ridiculous saying a computer was made to be used with no drives. Not being >able to save stuff almost totally removes the usefulness of a computer. Not always. Haven't you ever had the need to type in a quick program to do a specific task for the moment, one that you don't need to save because as soon as it gives you the output you want it is no-longer useful? I've written TONS of that stuff. Of course, I can't prove it, since I don't have a copy of the stuff on disk, but the programs weren't worth more than the one-time run I needed them for. It would seem like the era of being able to do something on a computer without any kind of mass storage device is coming to an end. >-- >/unknown@ucscb.ucsc.edu Apple IIGS Forever! WANT ULTIMA VI //e or GS?-mail me.\ >\CHEAP CDs info-mail me. McIntosh Junior: The Power to Crush the Other Kids. / Anyone know if the addresses used for the cassette ports have been reallocated to other purposes on a IIgs? I feel like re-installing them, or at least the cassette out to one of the conductors on the headphone out, for the fun of it (and the ability to get some kind of stereo output). -- /// ____ \\\ "It says, `Golgafrincham Ark Fleet, Ship B, Hold 7, Telephone | |/ / \ \| | Sanitizer, Second Class,' and a serial number." "A telephone \\_(\____/)_// sanitizer? A dead telephone sanitizer?" "Best greg \_\\\/ hoss.unl.edu kind." "But what's he doing here?" "Not a lot."