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   From: screw@you.net   
      
   In article <13hpvp7lo2l50ec@corp.supernews.com>,   
    "Joel Koltner"  wrote:   
      
   > "Brandon Staggs"  wrote in message   
   > news:1whhc1kjl8ip3$.1mz8slb57dj8v$.dlg@40tude.net...   
   > > I never used a PET.  The C64, by any measure, outdid the Apple II line   
   > > of computers.   
   >   
   > Mmm... the Apple II line was much more readily expandable than the C64 ever   
   > was, having multiple slots and all.  Growing up near Madison, Wisconsin there   
   > was a guy who stuffed a 1200bps modem in all six (?) or the slots of his   
   > Apple   
   > II and wrote a "chat" program to let people dial-up and type messages to one   
   > another -- not something you could do on a C64, at least not with   
   > off-the-shelf hardware for any reasonable price.  (Interestingly, another guy   
   > was inspired to do the same thing.  He was into Ataris, though so he used   
   > something like one Atari 65XL?  130XL?  -- one of the cheap models -- to   
   > handle each modem and then networked them all together.)   
   >   
   > Apple DOS also beats the pants off of what came stock with the C64 for   
   > accessing disk drives -- by the time C64's started to dwindle in popularity,   
   > I   
   > don't think there was anyone left who *didn't* have a FastLoad-type   
   > cartridge,   
   > was there?   
   >   
   > Of course, graphics and sound were much better on the C64... although   
   > ironically at least Applesoft BASIC had commands to use its more limited   
   > graphics capabilities, whereas the C64 didn't!   
   >   
   > Both were really great machines, with different strengths and weaknesses.   
   >   
   > ---Joel   
      
   Yeah, ever tried to program the Apple II?  What the hell was that all   
   about...same for the Atari 8-bits.  Seriously, has anyone ever used a   
   simpler screen editor in their life that came built into their machine?   
   Anyone?  Bueller...Bueller...   
      
   Douglas   
      
   :)   
      
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