I still have my old Apple IIe. My first computer was an Apple II with Applesoft Basic. I loved that computer. My first real effort was a printer font generator so people could design their own printer fonts. There was a lot going on in it and a lot of commands the designer could use. Didn't have to, but could. I had to create a separate 'Info' screen with all the help Quick-Key commands. It was accessed by Ctrl-I. I sent it in to one of the major Apple magazines (can't remember the name) and they said they thought it had an excellent interface, but it 'had too many user commands' and they rejected it because they felt the user would get confused. Guess I was ahead of my time. ;)


>>Tore, thanks for the reminded about different characters. I've still got my TRS-80 with Level II Basic. It came with upper case only because Tandy saved a few pennies by not buying the full character chip, but for about $90 (which was a lot of $ in those days) you could get a full character chip soldered in. I got that done and was extremely pleased with myself. All those fabulous new characters! Ah, those were the days.
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>>There is a lesson for us there as well. That TRS-80 came with 4k RAM, could be upgraded to 16k and with the mighty expansion interface you could get to the dizzy heights of 48k. We had word processing, accounting, spreadsheets... all in less memory than a printer driver demands in 2005 ;-)
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>>IMHO these computers are "Ford Model T"s that will one day be highly collectible. Does yours still run?
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>>Regards
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>>j.R
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>No, I dumped it many years ago. Can't keep everything forever, you know. I think the only really "old" machine I have, is my first Compaq portable (read draggable), the one which looked something like a Singer sewing machine. It came with a 486DX-33 which I immediately swapped into a 486DX2-66, and a 20MB HD. It still runs Windows 3.11, if I remember correctly. I have actually dragged it around the globe a couple of times.