Lost's Apple II up for auction

But... does this one have a bullet hole in it?

That's not an Apple /// monitor, it's a Monitor ///.

It was Apple's only high res (which meant monochrome back then) monitor at the time, and most Monitor ///s were attached to Apple //es (some even with DuoDisks under them). Later there was a Monitor //, which hade a tilt mechanism on it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_displays

What about if the Smoke Monster turned into a computer which Walt then used? If that's not good enough, then you could always look it up on Lostpedia.

I watched the series until the end of Season 2, then gave up. Same with Prison Break. All long running single story series usually get very confusing, the one exception I found was Alias.

I could sit and watch the whole series over and over again just for Jennifer Garner, but at least the story made sense.

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but I don't think the show ever provided a reasonable explanation for that one.
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that is because there was no plot on lost, there was "let's make this up as we go" not from some starting point, but from a new start point of each show, it was, "let's make this up as we go"...

so no way to explain not just that, but practically every scene "no reasonable explanation" for just about everything.

it was going to be entertaining when viewers started talking about the "plot" all the way through to the last show and beyond, that was the real entertainment, while the show's creators were sweating knowing they had no real plot even early on.

You should actually have 2 uSci floppy drives. One for the system; one for the program. Back when I started the Apple II lab in my school in 1979, the District's price for the Apple II, two uSci drives, the 9" green monitor, an 80 column card and some basic programs (Apple Write; Apple Draw and some others) was $4530. And we thought that was a really great deal! Oregon Trail from MECC was the first history 'game' I bought for the lab!

I think a much simpler answer is "because TV writers just make it up as they go along without ever caring how it'll resolve".

That was a very long answer for it to not involve the question that was asked.

"How did Walt get to a computer, and why didn't a chat ever come up any other time?"

I'm pretty sure it was "The Others" baiting Michael to come so that they could get Ben out.

It’s a “Disk II” rather than “disc.”

Also, the problem with this particular computer is that very bad things happen unless you continually enter a numeric sequence at the prompt.

Gawd, that's certainly not going to be cheap. Interesting article though, even if Lost is really boring imo. I never got into it much :(