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Currently the industry's goal is to get to 5nm and 3nm in the next 5 years. And while it does that IPC and new instructions themselves are practically free for the taking. IMHO CNT is a minimum of 7-8 years away and Quantum even longer. I prefer to see more complex instructions developed. Efficiency and elegance. Make the IA reference manual 20,000 pages baby!

Wal-mart sometimes has great prices on certain meds. And try contacting the drug company themselves, they may offer specialized "price plans"..

I can't get past the first coupla 2 3 levels in Pac-Man, DonkeyKong, and most platformers. I do however excel in flight simulations. I would classify myself as the best. Worldwide.

I wonder what the largest arcade game is or was? Without going into outdoor carnival games. I vote that sit-down Space Invaders with the LED screen and lifesize guns.

In my mind I have a short curated and thoughtful (!) list of important Apple II material. Highly manageable, aesthetically pleasing, always a conversation starter.. The rest feels like a sea of garbage that sways a-too and fro, rising and falling throughout the years as I throw ebay purchases into the pile and 6 months later excavate something of interest from 5ft under. A miniature non-decaying landfill right here in the house!

I like the blue 10:36, looks like a pet cat or something eagerly looking up at you.

I honestly have yet to see a CP that can play TRON and Assault and I' Robot in one setup.

What happens if you boot a disk that drops you to the "]" prompt? Can you type then?

As it says on the box, when does a collection become a collection? Or a hoard? At what point is one of those titles applied to your stash-o-stuff? It's like that burgeoning present-day 20x20x10 room full of Apple II stuff. I'm still dragging around with me. At what point did it go from a basic rig with 2 drives, monitor, and some expansion cards to a collection? And at what point did it go from being a collection to a hoard? And why would it be called a collection anyways as opposed to a burden of excess(now)?

And bonus points too because you could get more power from the outlets. Run more stuff.

Alright. After discussion with myself I'm certain the //c stuff is going now.

The best answer and most accurate price is simply "what someone is willing to pay for it." No more. No less. Just present the system in the best light possible, and answer any potential buyer questions as best you can. Fulfill any specific phot requests. That should do it and make for a pleasant transaction.

I've noticed that kids and teens do better with Macs & Chromebooks. They all shy away from Windows

Ohh god useless evaluation kits and trainers??

Love all the Genesis stuff! So colorful..

I too would like to see some sort of monochrome mode option.

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That is very very true. There was a time when I was hoping Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak would pay my collection a personal visit and bestow their blessings on a job well done. But, alas, I discovered I was quite full of shit and needed an enema. I don't think anyone is impressed by my hoard no matter how nicely I have/had it displayed. No matter how rare or unique the pieces were nobody gave a damn. And Apple computers are a step-up from mere dumb-ass videogames some would say. No matter. The respect level is the same low-point any videogame collection garners. The only saving grace is I accumulated a lot of this stuff when eBay was new and got some hella-deals. Like the SuperDrives, $25 each. Or a ZipGSX under $100. Or a RocketChip for $9.95. A //c for $3.95 from the resale shop? Hellyeh! Atari 800 $0.00 please-take-it! Ohh and here's a C64 circuitboard want that too? ..and the shit piles up! Sometimes I just want someone to come take it all away and be done with it!

It's a long time coming because it's a not an urgent requirement and I want to be sure of "no regrets". But right now all of it is becoming psychologically burdening. In continuing analyzing and trying to decide what is essential in my hoard of Apple II material I think I'm going to stay with what I had as a kid. My stuff was fairly comprehensive and complete back then, so it's a solid starting point. I want to be able to enjoy the best of the II series without keeping track of and worrying about maintaining extraneous hardware that amounts to little more than alternate methods & presentations (of the II series essence). For example: is there a need for a RamWorks, RamWorks II, and RamWorks III card? All three of them? Do I need the AppleModem 300? Do I need the huge 4'x4'x4' box the MHC shipped in? Do I even need that - for what purpose other than to recreate the photo I saw in advertising as a kid? I'd rather keep my original 16K Microsoft RamCard than that behemoth. Do I need more than 4 Disk II drives? A ProFile drive when I never used one, but instead my Sider II HDD which I used daily for years? So, more and more as my interest grows, wanes, changes, and refocuses over the seasons I'm leaning more and more the "kid way".. I'm keeping the II+ console and //e console. I added a Platinum model in the mid-late 1990's so that stays, too, for a total of 3 units. I didn't have a Platinum //e as a child, but I've grown attached to mine. It's highly reliable and efficient compared to the previous incarnations. And it has II series "genetics". But anything else is a gonner. I've already dumped the /// series and have only a ///+ remaining. The /// is nostalgic to me only in memory. And that was instilled by reading catalogs. Since memory and rainbow goggles go together my perception & imagination (of the ///) is so much better than what it could ever be in real life. Owning one isn't the grandiose experience suggested by high eBay prices or infatuated users waxing poetic. Then or now. The /// series scene is relatively dead compared to other classic Apple machines anyways. The //c. I'm fairly sure they'll be gonners too. Because they are simply cut-down or size-optimized versions of the enhanced //e. I never really had one as a kid and only read about them till after y2k. I think I have 2 or 3 of them now. I don't see any advantage they have over a //e Platinum other than smaller size. I never became nostalgic for them. Sure they could fit smoothly into a reading alcove or small den and such, but then an R-Pi or SFF PC can do so much more so much faster via emulation. It's a wash. The IIgs..? I'm still pondering what to do with my gs stuff. I don't think it's a II series computer in spirit or practice. For a brief instant I visualized it as a bastard hybrid 8/16 bit child. Not able to efficiently utilize any of itself. There will always be half of the computer left hanging when in one mode or the other. Is it a bastard child with a //e-on-a-chip patched into a 16-bit wannabe? Or is it a weak Amiga / AtariST with an Apple //e patched in? Well.. Got a couple of motherboards, 2 consoles, and more than enough parts to completely re-assemble 2 more consoles. Got some accelerators and memory boards and other peripherals. Couple of monitors, drives, SCSI crap, and other odds'n'ends. All of which I hadn't powered up in a long time. So it's likely to go. Seems the essence of the II series lies firmly in the realm of the //e. Seems all modern-day 8-bit apple hacking and classic computing and takes place there. And I had my best of times with the II+ and //e. I clearly recall doing my first 16K upgrades and drive upgrades as well as transitioning into the //e from the II+! We gained so much, MouseText, more firmware features, lowercase, 80-columns, more memory capacity, more cpu instructions, DHR-graphics. More keys on the keyboard. Yet it gave up so little. It remained compatible with nearly all that came before. And what wasn't compatible was usually patched. Even today, things "II+ only" are being fixed to work on the //e. And that's where I'm at with that. I stopped with CraigsList junk hauls and use that time for other hobbies. I'm only sporadically buying some books and documentation // series and PC related docs. Perhaps some some spare parts too. But no more console or peripheral acquisitions. Likely no more card or drive purchases. No more monitor purchases, not that I've done that in a while. But I am highly nostalgic for literature and books of the period so there's that.

Yes. and you have to be sure you have a good disk. AND be sure the head is spit-polished clean and operating with a firm (but properly tensioned) pressure-pad atop the disk surface. All it takes is one old disk to gum up the works. ONE DISK! Failing that you can start cleaning the connectors in the drive and to and from the drive card itself. I don't know how many early-style Disk II drives I fixed (that had a weak calibration banging sound) just by reseating the ribbon cable's internal connector. Those are basic things you can do right away with a screwdriver and Qtip + alcohol.

Ads are a good thing, because, they may alert me to a potentially good deal, or introduce me to a new e-commerce site. For example I just have to click on something Nikon related and I'll get ads and announcements of sales and even new Nikon products more or less. Not only that but they add a bit of spice and familiarity. AA looks rather bare without them. However! I may not click on them directly because I run without all that AntiVirus and AntiMalware crap. All that stuff does is bog down a system. And it would be a hard violation of what I learned in the early 90's, "don't click on things you're not sure of".. And I'm not interested in feeding the middlemen (anti-malware co's and advertisers).

I currently fall into the "not allowed" camp. Someday it will change perhaps.

There are many many reasons why people can't subscribe, or are not allowed to subscribe, or whatever. Freeloading is only one of them.

Simulating or emulating TTL is dirt easy. All you need is a truth table. Exactly like LE in FPGA. Simulating or emulating TTL signal timings is also easy, again look-up tables. Simulating or emulating TTL signal propagation is a pain in the ass and takes a lot of processing power. But nothing a basic i5 or i7 can't handle. So it comes down to the style of what you want to do. Simulate? Emulate? Recreate 1:1. And any of those methods can produce an extremely accurate Pong playfield.