Apple II

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2015–2025), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with Apple II, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 4 complaints

Printing text is slow and requires dealing with non-contiguous screen memory mapping2025-02-06
Hard to program: high-res graphics memory addresses don't match screen rows2023-03-08
Editing a line requires pressing Escape repeatedly to toggle arrow-key behavior, making simple edits tedious2020-09-15
Hi-res text stops appearing after the program is interrupted, with no way to keep printing2015-06-13