re4mat
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Although, just now thinking, shouldn't the verb be "liberation"? And shouldn't that be the name of the "Conquests" forum?
Aaaaaaaanyway, a couple days ago I spotted a Craigslist find that I wasn't able to resist, even though I'd initially had no plans to ever get one: an Apple IIc + monitor for $30! I ended up paying him $40, since he saved me a bit of money by reminding me of the price difference between walking onto the ferry and driving onto it. This guy seemed pretty savvy: he's even donated vintage computers to the Living Computer Museum here in Seattle. The IIc had been given to him by (I think he said) his grandma, and he was just not getting around to working on it, so he thought he'd make sure it got somewhere that it would be worked on. The only bummer is that he said that just a couple weeks before his grandma (might have been his mom, but I think it was grandma—doesn't really matter) gave him the machine, she'd thrown out the box and manuals and floppies that came with it. D'oh!
I just brought it home yesterday. He said that he never turned it on while he had it, so the working condition is unknown. I'm going to open it up first and do some tests before powering it on, just to make sure nothing catastrophic has happened inside. I'll probably be posting over in the Apple II forum as I try to get this thing restored—it's been almost 30 years since I used an Apple II regularly, so I don't remember a whole lot. Plus I know almost nothing about it electrically. I did find the Apple IIc Technical Reference Manual from Apple on archive.org, though, and that has the schematics in it.
Cosmetically, it's in fairly decent condition. Needs a good cleaning and definitely some retrobrite. There's a little bit of corrosion on the composite plug on the IIc end. Hopefully just a little bit of Deoxit will take care of that. If not, I have plenty of RCA jacks.
Aaaaaaaanyway, a couple days ago I spotted a Craigslist find that I wasn't able to resist, even though I'd initially had no plans to ever get one: an Apple IIc + monitor for $30! I ended up paying him $40, since he saved me a bit of money by reminding me of the price difference between walking onto the ferry and driving onto it. This guy seemed pretty savvy: he's even donated vintage computers to the Living Computer Museum here in Seattle. The IIc had been given to him by (I think he said) his grandma, and he was just not getting around to working on it, so he thought he'd make sure it got somewhere that it would be worked on. The only bummer is that he said that just a couple weeks before his grandma (might have been his mom, but I think it was grandma—doesn't really matter) gave him the machine, she'd thrown out the box and manuals and floppies that came with it. D'oh!
I just brought it home yesterday. He said that he never turned it on while he had it, so the working condition is unknown. I'm going to open it up first and do some tests before powering it on, just to make sure nothing catastrophic has happened inside. I'll probably be posting over in the Apple II forum as I try to get this thing restored—it's been almost 30 years since I used an Apple II regularly, so I don't remember a whole lot. Plus I know almost nothing about it electrically. I did find the Apple IIc Technical Reference Manual from Apple on archive.org, though, and that has the schematics in it.
Cosmetically, it's in fairly decent condition. Needs a good cleaning and definitely some retrobrite. There's a little bit of corrosion on the composite plug on the IIc end. Hopefully just a little bit of Deoxit will take care of that. If not, I have plenty of RCA jacks.