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 SA> We have an old Mac IIe lab and wonder of anyone has found uses
 SA> for the computers other than using the monitors in a video lab.
 SA> Can any of the later technology make them useful?
 SA> CD Stations perhaps?
These must be Apple //e's? I don't believe there was ever a Mac
with that designation. Pardon me if I'm wrong, I haven't followed
Apple products closely in recent years. The old Apples are quite
versatile because many interface cards were designed for their
open architecture. If you could somehow locate a source for these
cards second hand (there used to be a lot of gear for sale in the
classified ads in the back of Computer Shopper), these machines
might still be useful. I'm doubtful you could do anything with
CDs, but there are all sorts of other applications. An example is
Dupont here in Kingston, where a lab full of Apple IIgs's is used
in research for data acquisition. An analog-to-digital card
interfaces with whatever analog equipment they're using, and software
processes the incoming data. Even running at only 1 or 2 MHz,
that's plenty fast enough for most lab experiments. I used to have
stuff like speech synthesis cards, Z80 cards (to run CP/M software),
graphics tablets, and others. The cards and extra equipment are
the key; they're not very exciting by themselves anymore. One
exception might be to use them to teach touch typing. I'm pretty
sure Mavis Beacon was written for those machines, and there may be
others. I wrote a gradebook program for this computer about 8 years
ago, but eventually discontinued it as the Macs and PCs became more
commonplace in schools.
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