The blind lead the blind!
The fine brothers should probably learn more about these computers. They make the kids think they can do virtually nothing, etc....
To top it off, they were using an Apple II which IS a bit different from the Apple II+. To see this, I guess one way is that an APPLE II needs to be reset every time. I never had one, so maybe they are wrong THERE also.
So a few things for the kids!
1. The monitor was a standard monitor of the day, and not part of the computer.
2. VERY few computers, including ALL IBM work alikes and ALL APPLE computers will simply add numbers. The Apple/Apple II have a programming language built in, and I guess you now have to download or buy one with IBM pcs. They used to have gwbasic with dos.
3. The reset is a nice, built in, CPU feature that few IBM PCs now have. They removed it! You want to reset them? You probably have to REBOOT! YEECH
4. The circuit board in the APPLE II is roughly the same realestate as an IBM PC. Most of the size is deadair and for expansion.
5. The floppy was designed at the last minute. They used what was called a full size floppy. Within a couple years of the IBM PC, they had 1/2 height and later 1/3. But same basic mechanism.
6. You COULD get hard disk drives for it.
7. WOW, they think the APPS and GUI just come with the CPU chip!
Steve
To top it off, they were using an Apple II which IS a bit different from the Apple II+. To see this, I guess one way is that an APPLE II needs to be reset every time. I never had one, so maybe they are wrong THERE also.
So a few things for the kids!
1. The monitor was a standard monitor of the day, and not part of the computer.
2. VERY few computers, including ALL IBM work alikes and ALL APPLE computers will simply add numbers. The Apple/Apple II have a programming language built in, and I guess you now have to download or buy one with IBM pcs. They used to have gwbasic with dos.
3. The reset is a nice, built in, CPU feature that few IBM PCs now have. They removed it! You want to reset them? You probably have to REBOOT! YEECH
4. The circuit board in the APPLE II is roughly the same realestate as an IBM PC. Most of the size is deadair and for expansion.
5. The floppy was designed at the last minute. They used what was called a full size floppy. Within a couple years of the IBM PC, they had 1/2 height and later 1/3. But same basic mechanism.
6. You COULD get hard disk drives for it.
7. WOW, they think the APPS and GUI just come with the CPU chip!
Steve