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From: rnf@shumv1.uucp (Rick Fincher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Apple II for scientific use
Message-ID: <1989Dec23.074210.27084@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Date: 23 Dec 89 07:42:10 GMT
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In article <1989Dec22.172808.5372@eng.umd.edu> cyliao@eng.umd.edu (Chun-Yao Liao) writes:
>In article <10048@microsoft.UUCP> brianw@microsoft.UUCP (Brian WILLOUGHBY) writes:
>>Has Apple Co. ever acknowledged the awesome number of Apple ][ computers used
>>in scientific research labs for data acquisition?  Every time I turn around in
>>a college campus lab, I see an Apple ][ Plus or //e with wires attached all
>>over the  place - hooked to monstrous machinery or measuring equipment.  If
>>Apple would recognize what I feel is a market equal to the so-called
>>"Education" market, then their emphasis would necessarily shift to performance
>>as it can be used for engineering applications.  BTW, this kind of shift in
>>focus would make me very happy - since I basically use my Apple ][ Plus as a
>>home sound lab tool.
>>

The Apple II was also used to allow paralyzed people to walk by enervating
muscles in the legs according to a program.