On Feb 8, 5:28=A0am, lyricalnanoha 
wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Feb 2009, N.N. Thayer wrote:
> > On Feb 7, 2:19=C2=A0pm, "Michael J. Mahon"
 wrote:
> >> A good collection of any one platform, certainly of one as prolific as
> >> the Apple II, would be quite large--larger than could be accommodated
> >> for multiple platforms without prodigious amounts of space.
>
> >> And, while preservation is clearly a necessary goal, the kind of thing
> >> I envision would encourage use, even experimentation and modification,
> >> which clearly go beyond a museum's charter.
>
> > I guess it's a foregone conclusion that the set of people still
> > interested in active experimentation with these platforms - an arcane
> > sub-area of an arcane area of a still-arcane field - is way, way too
> > geographically dispersed to make any single locus for it sustainable.
> > And it's a pretty high barrier of entry for anyone without a pre-
> > existing interest, for reasons that go beyond technical.
>
> >> I've been curious over the years about how the average age of the
> >> community is changing with time. =C2=A0I'm sure it's not increasing at
> >> the rate of a year per year, but it probably isn't much lower.
>
> > I'm only 28, so there's one outlier data point, anyway!
>
> LOL, I'm only a year older than that...
>
> -uso.

And I'm only 20, and have been using Apple IIs for 17 years of
that. :) (Starting with an original revision Apple //c built in
1984. :))

So, yeah, there's still younger people in the Apple II community. :)
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