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Not a Mac but still an Apple... or ][.

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.

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AppleIIPlus.JPG

 

ScutBoy

Well-known member
Sweet! I've run across a few ][+ machines, but never a straight ][.

Looks like some kind of 80 column card in the ][+. Can't really tell what the card in slot 5 is, though. With that 50-pin header, is it a SCSI card?

 

Juror22

Well-known member
In the plus are...

language (SRAM) card

Viewmax 80 Column card

Ramfactor memory card (512K installed)

IO Card (goes to the DuoDisk)

 
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Juror22

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I powered up the Apple II+ to a white screen, but with some online assistance, some time, and a little work with my oscilloscope, multimeter, and EPROM burner, I have a working Apple II+.  WooHoo!

 
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