It is not that I don’t particularly dislike Apple products that I am writing this.

Ok, Ok, Ok, I can here Lewis’s voice reminding me not to lie; I do dislike Apple products.

It was not always so, as I was enamored with the first Apple computers that had add-in boards where you could add peripherals, additional memory and other such stuff as A/D converters for analog data collection.  There were a lot of things you could do with these magnificent machines such as measure the temperature and display it on the screen, make charts of time vs. temperature and create crude lie detectors, just to mention a few. Read more »