Forum Archive Index - March 2004

["Woody" <solarmax@optusnet.com.au>]

The first Apple Computer commercially available in Indonesia was the lisa,
what was available in other countries at the time was not my concern. If you
check how things are distributed around the world. Often one make has many
models distributed under different names in different countries.

Woody( Now I know how old you are ! )

----- Original Message -----
From: "robin benson" <rob@hammerheadmedia.co.uk>
To: <sharechat@sharechat.co.nz>
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 11:57 PM
Subject: Re: [sharechat] Mining and Forestry Stocks reply Richard Apple


> Thanks Woodie for the interesting comments -- I feel younger already!
>
> However, I suspect you might be wide of the mark on a number of points.
> These appear as a matter of correction only -- apologies for the
> off-topic nature of this post.
>
> 1. I can assure you that you were not using an Apple computer before I
> could tie my shoelaces unless you somehow had a pre-Wozniak/Jobs Apple
> computer.
>
> 2. The Lisa was not the first commercially available Apple. I know this
> because I owned a commercially available Apple (the Apple 2) before the
> Lisa and knew business using this model.
>
> 3. I can provide proof of many years of Apple use (since 1977).
> Expertise is quite a relative term. Some would consider themselves
> expertise when others would see them as mere beginners. It is hard to
> measure, but do general 6502 machine-code programming (later writing a
> Pacal compiler in machine code), boot-tracing, EPROM-programming and
> publishing programs count?
>
> Your Mac exploits sound commendable. I can't think of why myself or
> anybody would want to "challenge" you on your use of your technologies.
> Indeed, I encourage you to continue!
>
> Robin
>
> On 17 Mar 2004, at 11:39, Woody wrote:
>
> > Robbie you are obviously quite young I was using an apple computer
> > before
> > you could even tie you shoelaces.
> >
> > The Apple 1 had bus speed of 1 mhz,  8kb of onboard ram and 32kb of
> > ram It
> > was Steve Wozniak's first salable computer. It was not commercially
> > available outside the US. The first Commercially available Apple was
> > the
> > Lisa. It was too expensive and few could afford it. The first real
> > Apple PC
> > was the Macintosh and if you were a real Apple user this was what you
> > called
> > their first usable computer.
> >
> > I used the first Mac to design and eventually publish a news paper. I
> > use
> > the first beta version of pagemaker and over 50 floppy disks. Sometimes
> > spending hours typing an article only to get ' Disk Full " leaving me
> > with a
> > repeat performance.
> > I can send you copies of this paper copies of the following magazines
> > I also
> > published on subsequent Mac 11 and eventually the Power Mac. So if you
> > want
> > to challange me on the use of the Mac then shall we use this public
> > forum to
> > do so. Send me you address and I shall send proof of many years of
> > Apple use
> > and expertise.  I doubt that you can do likewise.
> >
> > Woody
>
>
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