What Can I Do with My Old Apple II?Vernier Software started out as an Apple II software company in 1981 and we still support the Apple II.
Most of our new sensors can be used with Apple II computers through the game port. If you have an old Apple II computer sitting around, consider turning it into a lab instrument.
We can't think of a better way to use an old computer. Your chemistry department might need another pH meter or temperature-measurement system. We have the Chemistry with Computers, and Physical Science with Computers books, which have lab and demonstration ideas using Apple IIs. We also have project books in which you build your own sensors to use in experiments.
Your physics teacher might like a photogate timer. Your biology department might benefit from a system to monitor aquarium or greenhouse temperatures. If you want more Apple II computers, you can probably get them from other departments in your school, or by asking parents for donations. Think of it as computer recycling!
This award-winning program is just what your students need to plot graphs of their experimental data. The graphs produced follow standard graphing conventions and can 0include point protectors, a background grid, error bars, or linear regression "best-fit" lines.Graphical Analysis can be used to create modified versions of the graph. For example, if you have a table of the distance an object has fallen from rest vs. time, you can have the computer automatically calculate values of time squared and then plot a distance vs. time squared graph.
You can modify the data on either axis by raising it to any power, taking the log, or using a trig function. This can be very useful in finding the relationship between variables. Data tables may contain up to 512 data pairs divided into as many as four separate data series. Apple II Graphical Analysis files may be transferred to and from AppleWorks.
The TRS-80 model 100 is still used a lot today in rugged applications. The little suckers just work and don't die. I used to have basically the same thing in a different package, an Olivetti M-10:
Having used Apple until then, it was the first Microsoft software on Intel I ever used.
You're both my kind of people. II Infinitum.
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