I had to do this...
I set up my 13 working Apple computers and turned all of them on (save for one, my PowerMac 6100/60AV; ran out of cords!) and make this image...
Peace,
Rob
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Okay, okay, my syntax was pretty bad!
But a nice picture nonetheless.
To Steve and Steve. And the next 30 years.
CW wrote...
I started putting the little tribute together yesterday. The hardest part was getting my old Portable "Galatea" up and running again. Incredibly, she is running again! It was worth it!
On your //c you coulda hit Ctrl-Reset to drop to Applesoft BASIC. Then you could have written a quick program to clear the screen and print the anniversary message.
Hey Jon,
Actually did that. Did the ol' classic "PRINT, GOTO" thing, but it looked really weird in my camera. So, I wanted the "Apple //" to show up, instead, but that didn't quite work, either; the only way to see the Portable's screen was with the flash, and I have to be honest, I was so proud of getting that old girl to work that I was sort of fixated on her.
That's a tradeoff I'd probably have made too. Maybe a little researchto find a program that would print larger characters on the screen? It'd be really tedious to program in all the line drawing commands to do it your self.
It seems that I can either have my iBook running or my Portable, but not both at the same time; my iBook's hard drive died. Been getting slower and slower, and was giving me memory errors opening Word 5.1A (an application that can run on less than a meg!). Went to reformat the hard drive, run restore... and the rest is history.
Figures...