Juror22
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I was checking out garage sales in CL and one nearby came up with a picture of some Apple items. I wound up picking up a couple of Apple II's that had been in the guy's crawlspace, as well a 250MB Zip drive with lots of extra disks and an Imation Superdrive with disks (including several new ones) and a Duodisk for the Apple II.
I had never understood what folks saw in the Apple II's, but to be fair, I was a little envious that my parents bought my younger brother one, when I had to buy my own computers and could only afford a TI99/4A and later on, a couple of Tandy laptops. Once the Macintosh came out (and I could afford one) that was the platform for me and still is, other than working with UNIX servers as a career.
Over time, while collecting Mac-related items, I have come across Apple II items that I couldn't say no to and these were the latest. Of course, these acquisitions give me a place to use the SuperSerial II card, IO card and maybe even the mouse card that a kind old apple guy passed onto me some time back. One thing I do like about them is that they are a LOT lighter than the Macs.
The one Apple II, pictured below is (I'm pretty sure) a 1980 rev4 machine and the other, (with all the cards that came installed), is a later Apple II plus. I have tested out the Apple II, by plugging it into a monitor - it booted up and ran BASIC commands. Both were complete and undamaged, except for a couple of deep scratches (light gouges?) in the plus's plastic case that are visible in the picture. The covers are fine, but removed for the pictures. They needed quite a bit of cleaning on the outside, but seem ok within. I have yet to power up the plus, but hope to do that this weekend.
I had never understood what folks saw in the Apple II's, but to be fair, I was a little envious that my parents bought my younger brother one, when I had to buy my own computers and could only afford a TI99/4A and later on, a couple of Tandy laptops. Once the Macintosh came out (and I could afford one) that was the platform for me and still is, other than working with UNIX servers as a career.
Over time, while collecting Mac-related items, I have come across Apple II items that I couldn't say no to and these were the latest. Of course, these acquisitions give me a place to use the SuperSerial II card, IO card and maybe even the mouse card that a kind old apple guy passed onto me some time back. One thing I do like about them is that they are a LOT lighter than the Macs.
The one Apple II, pictured below is (I'm pretty sure) a 1980 rev4 machine and the other, (with all the cards that came installed), is a later Apple II plus. I have tested out the Apple II, by plugging it into a monitor - it booted up and ran BASIC commands. Both were complete and undamaged, except for a couple of deep scratches (light gouges?) in the plus's plastic case that are visible in the picture. The covers are fine, but removed for the pictures. They needed quite a bit of cleaning on the outside, but seem ok within. I have yet to power up the plus, but hope to do that this weekend.