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From: don@BRILLIG.UMD.EDU (Don Hopkins)
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Subject: What to do with the old ][?
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Date: Wed, 15-Oct-86 17:03:19 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 15 17:03:19 1986
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I've had a ][+ for a long time, the guts of which I transplanted to a
wooden box that holds everything but the keyboard, monitor, and hard
disk. Now that much bigger machines are sucking up most of my
attention, I mainly use it as a terminal. I've got an 80 column card
that would not be useful for a //e or a //gs, and a full ASCII
keyboard, so it does a good job at terminaling. I've put an enormous
ammount of time into the machine, and it still performs useful
functions very well. I don't want to 'upgrade' by trading in. If I got
a //gs, I would want to keep the ][+. I can do dangerous hardware
experiments on the ][+, because I'm sure the //gs will do wonderful
things to the used ][+ motherboard market from the motherboard
consumer's point of view. There will also be lots of dirt cheap 80
column, serial, and other cards the //gs obsoletes, but which are
still useful on a ][+. I will be able to test that software I write for
the //e or gs runs on the ][+. (This is NOT something you can do by
just following the rules in the manuals...). There still are, and will
continue to be, a lot of ][+'s out there. But the time to stock up on
used hardware is now. Onward to the hamfests!

	-Don