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I agree that high margins hurt Apple, but that is mostly because it is hard to attract a broad range of developers if their potential market is small. And if you don't have the software, you can't get many users on board. In industries where you don't have that symbiotic relationship between...

Just a comment on the "floppy disk burner" comment: we're talking about a technology that has not been in common use for over a decade. (Rememeber, Apple pulled the floppy drive out of iMacs in 1997 or so.) Very little software has been distributed on floppies for about 15 years. People...

It is also worth noting that we rarely, if ever, laugh at a seller for posting something for too little. Indeed, many of us boast about free (or dirt cheap) hauls. And, well, when you put 1 and 1 together to get 0 it just makes us sound like a bunch of freeloaders. That being said, I don't...

Depends whether the program retains the 24-bit colour information, but displays it as 256 colours. It sounds hard to work with though and, given the limitations of older hardware, it would probably be impractical to work on 24-bit images of any size.

I have always liked Pascal. The language can be represented in BNF in a page or two. I have never seen C represented in BNF, but friends who have developed compilers said that it is hairy. That makes a language much more difficult to master, and the programmer is much more prone to making...

Most people have a nasty tendency to think that memory is something where you specify a memory location, the CPU applies that memory location to the address lines, then the CPU reads the results from the data lines. (Or you specify the memory location and some data, then the CPU applies the...

My advice: get into it gently. Most problems can be solved by simply knowing what the various modules do, and replacing them when necessary. The next level is to understand the basics of electronics, so that you can identify problems visually or using a multimeter. That will help you target...

Assuming that I'm the cat and the ball of wool is Applesoft, a better description would be a ball of wool playing with a cat. Actually, I wasn't a bad programmer back then. It's amazing what you can accomplish without the Internet to distract you.

Since moving, my only home machine has been a 430 MHz Geode with 256 MB RAM than runs a variant of Fedora. The machine that I have at work runs both Vista and Ubuntu 8.10. On some days, Vista doesn't even see the light of day. Which is interesting, because I force all of my students to use...

For what it's worth, I spent many moons hoping for a 68k Mac newsgroup before I decided to bother with things like web forums. Newsgroups would work fine on older machines. Indeed, I used them for a fairly long time from an Apple II. First using a shell account, then using QWK packets that...

The poster's name is right under the subject line of every message. It is very easy to see while reading the post. I don't see why it has to be included again to the left or right and think that it should be removed altogether. If you need to shoot a PM, know when they joined, or any of that...

Which versions of ClarisWorks were available for Windows? I picked up 1.0 at a thrift a while back, but know nothing of the history.

That depends. Was this burning a decision by the copyright holder? Or was a manical Steve Jobs (i.e. not the copyright holder) trying to destroy all evidence of Apple products prior to NeXT OS X? ;) It's been said before: copyright is about more than financial gain. Copyright owners may...

Except that the Twain came long after the 128k. It is also quite possible that Apple wasn't in the least bit worried about the Twain competing with the Mac. The original IIgs models never did have stellar sales, indeed the IIe seems to have been on Apple's price lists after the IIgs was...

Well, that site has been around for more than a decade. Back then the pictures were quite good. ;)

http://www.apple2.org should have info on the machine, as well as a few snapshots of the Twain on vacation.

System 7.1, mostly since it could run most of the software written prior to the release of Carbon. It is also lean. It also looks nice. System 6 is the next runner up. I love its memory economy and blazing speed, and most of the applications for it reflect that. I also love the economy of...

Sorry about the confusion, but it really is best to buy a printer with this sort of thing in mind. I don't know what the inkjet world is like, but it isn't uncommon to find new laser printrs that claim to support OS 9 and earlier (oftentimes the specifications will even say so). But since you...

I am a huge fan of PostScript printers because they will work on almost any computer you throw at them. At least if they sport the right ports. (Get parallel and ethernet as a minimum, USB is nice, and serial is also nice if you can find it.) Most vendors have at least one mid range printer...

By carefully prying with a thin flat head screwdriver. The Apple IIc has plastic clips holding the cover together.