New to me Apple][e collection.

[sunvalleylaw]

Don’t have pictures yet, but I just picked up a nice intact and cleaned up Apple][e including extras. Multiple floppy disk drives, including a side-by-side, a 3 1/2 floppy drive that works, extra cards, and an original green monochrome monitor. , And some floppy discs with some programs on them. Not sure how many of those still work. This computer collection was owned originally by some computer science instructor down in Ogden, Utah, and was told to the guy who runs the local vintage computer club in Boise. And he did some work bringing things up to current running spec. He has moved on because he’s more into the commodore stuff.

Will get things set up and do some pictures either today or tomorrow.

 

[sunvalleylaw]

OK, got stuff pulled together and initially set up, and also pulled some of the extra stuff out of the box and look through it. This is a pretty amazing and crazy collection! Unfortunately, the floppy emu I have does not have the Apple II disk emulation loaded on it as it was being used with a Macintosh SE/30. I purchased also. And the prior owner must have removed that stuff.

But anyway, this is going to be pretty fun to explore! I didn’t do any computing in the apple Ii world in the past and really started by personal computing journey with the original Macintosh.

I did boot the machine up with the disk where do 3.3 system master disc and played around with that for a couple minutes but now I need to shut things down for the night and I’ll learn more later.

 

[sunvalleylaw]

 

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[nathall]

That’s quite the starter collection. You’ve got an AE Transwarp CPU accelerator card in there!

 

[sunvalleylaw]

That’s quite the starter collection. You’ve got an AE Transwarp CPU accelerator card in there!

Yep, from the seller, who is a good guy who, as I said runs a Boise vintage computing club:

“Likewise, Steve, glad you've joined us! I picked it up last year from a local guy who is the grandson of the original owner. The original owner was an Apple-certified technician in the 80's and later became a high school programming teacher. This was his personal machine, and it kind of represents the "ultimate" IIe one could assemble. It has the following cards:
- TransWarp accelerator card which carries it's own processor clocked about 3.5x faster than the original Apple IIe's
- An 80-column expansion board
- An A2DVI card that I added to enable HDMI video out (in case you don't want to deal with composite or a CRT)

It also has the following peripherals:
- A duodisk dual 5.25" floppy drive (tested and works)
- 3 old-school Disk II 5.25" floppy drives (only one works)
- 2 monochrome CRT monitors (basically identical, green phosphor). (EDIT: I let him keep one).
- An apple dot-matrix printer (IMAGEWRITER II)
- Boxes of original disks and manuals
- An extra power supply (works)

In terms of service work I've done, I've recapped the mainboard and the power supply and cleaned the inside and outside of the machine.

Confirmed it also has a RamFactor RAM memory expansion card and Super Serial card.”

Now, I just am learning how to use it as I go. Will be better when I can Apple II disc emulation mode loaded back up on my Floppy Emu.

Pretty excited about this, and he was very generous, I feel, in what he charged me. I also LOVE having a collection with some history as he described.

 

[bibilit]

Nice setup. congrats.

 

[volvo242gt]

Nice. I would replace the 80 column card with an AE RAMWorks II or III, though. You also can add an Apple SuperDrive controller card to let the //e access 3.5" floppies, including 1.4MB disks with an Apple SuperDrive (M7287) floppy drive. The Reactive Micro site based out of Bremerton, Washington, has a reproduction card available.

 

[sunvalleylaw]

Nice. I would replace the 80 column card with an AE RAMWorks II or III, though. You also can add an Apple SuperDrive controller card to let the //e access 3.5" floppies, including 1.4MB disks with an Apple SuperDrive (M7287) floppy drive. The Reactive Micro site based out of Bremerton, Washington, has a reproduction card available.

OK, this is all new to me so I will look into that. Can you describe for me the advantages of a Ramworks card though?

Also, the machine did come with a working 3.5 inch drive and I thought there was a card for it but maybe I’m wrong. or maybe you were talking about a higher capacity drive.

As said, just learning about all this.

 

[sunvalleylaw]

@volvo242gt OK, I think I see what you are saying. The 3.5 drive I have is labeled Unidisk.

Also, I got a second monitor up and running via the A2DVi Card. The other little cheap one I bought at the computer recycler just must have the wrong resolution or doesn’t support the resolution used by the card. Oh well, I could probably figure out a different way to use that. It was only 20 bucks.