Apple iie platinum off ebay

[pball52998]

Received last week but just now getting around to posting it.

Well after searching a bit for a iie, I bit the bullet and decided to gamble on a $100 apple iie off eBay.

What will come with it? Does it really come with monitor?



Opened it up, wrapped decent, would've liked a bit more bubble wrap.




A monitor that didn't get crushed in shipping! No chipped plastic! (Apple iii IC labeled in the background..)




Looks like it belonged to a school system. The Ponway Unified school district to be exact after some research based on address/logo.



Quite yellowed, but adds to the appeal.

Has a serial card and a 5.25 inch drive controller card.

Only one floppy drive and a carton of disks


Won't be using the disks too much as I have a floppy emu.

Loaded a lovely demo up and watched through and listened to some lovely Christmas music through beeps and boops.



It's not perfect, there's sticker residue that I can't get off for the life of me even with googone, the writing from the school district, the yellowing. A big 28 that was taped on top of the montior that seems perma stuck there now.

The R key didn't work at all. I swapped it with the * on the numberpad.

The moment I desoldered it one of the legs fell right off and that one key was incredibly gross. No other key around it. Quite odd.

Every key now works except the * on the numpad though. I plan to keep the school system writing as it shows where this machine was in history.

I love having just a small bit of "this was used in a school system, saved and now in the hand of a collector to have fun with" theme.

Just excited to have a apple iie finally!

Back to slaving away with the apple ///

 

[bibilit]

Another steal… a complete system for so little is Hardy seen nowadays.

 

[joshc]

Definitely a steal. The IIe Platinum is my favourite of the Apple II family. Currently the only IIe machines I can find on eBay UK are £450 and £600 and they are not complete systems either.

 

[Byrd]

Nice pickup - I think nearly all have school engravings on them! Nice machines and fun to tinker and upgrade.

 

[CC_333]

I'd love to have a monitor like that for my Platinum IIe....

Mine came with a different monitor that looks like it would've been a better match for a IIc or IIgs.

It is color capable, I think, so there's that.

c

 

[pball52998]

Another steal…

I've found quite the bit after searching for a while!

The IIe Platinum is my favourite of the Apple II family.

I am really enjoying it. I'd love to get a cracked iie regular and put it into a maceffects clear case.

I think nearly all have school engravings on them!

I noticed that! So many off ebay were just stamped/prodded with school logos. Really fascinating. I'm happy to leave mine as is. But I know a lot of people want a "clean" machine. I love seeing where it was.

I'd love to have a monitor like that for my Platinum IIe....

I now have a monitor ii and a monitor iii for both my ii and iii.

Just need a tiny black and white for when I build a tiny little apple i from reactive micro

I'm used to my amber monitor and my white iii monitor. The green is quite lovely and a change of pace!

 

[macinbot]

Considering the sub-par packing job, I am absolutely amazed that it arrived in basically unscathed condition. Especially during the holiday rush period. The computer gods were smiling upon you.

Great looking system. Just last month I drove to pickup a IIe system (you can read about it here). Mine's a bog standard IIe and not the fancy Enhanced-Enhanced version like yours.

Wasn't familiar with the demo, something I'll need to track down. And I dig that you're keeping the history of its providence alive by maintaining the school documents. That'll be a nice touch when demoing the system.

 

[pball52998]

The computer gods were smiling upon you.

I fully expected it to show up in pieces. The huge sigh of relief I had when I unpacked everything and to my surprise no damage!

It's a bit yellowed. But for $100 I really can't complain that much.

 

[macinbot]

I fully expected it to show up in pieces. The huge sigh of relief I had when I unpacked everything and to my surprise no damage!

It's a bit yellowed. But for $100 I really can't complain that much.

$100 US American dollars?! That's quite a deal. Hopefully you didn't pay too much for the shipping, considering.

 

[pball52998]

$100 US American dollars?! That's quite a deal. Hopefully you didn't pay too much for the shipping, considering.

bought for 100 shipped for 100.

I don't like to say the shipping cost!

I took a huge gamble and came out ahead.

Still technically $100! we don't talk about shipping

But yes. USD, shipped from cali -> nc

 

[macinbot]

Well we're about even. I spent $200 on my IIe with 2x Disk II and Apple mono monitor, plus whatever cards were installed. I did spend on gas (Nor Cal to Eugene) but I also spent a couple days visiting with my son and a friend on the way there and back, so it the gas only partially counts. That's what I tell myself. lol.

 

[CC_333]

I think this is about what I spent for my Enhanced IIe back in 2013-2014.

It's nothing special, just the IIe itself (just an ordinary IIe, so no fancy upgrades), CRT, two disk drives, joystick and some disks.

c

 

[pball52998]

joystick

Got any recommendations for a joystick?

I need one but haven't looked too far into it

 

[olePigeon]

There's an adapter that lets you use almost any joystick (including an SNES controller), but they're about $50 shipped. However, given the price of Apple II joysticks right now, it doesn't seem so bad.

My favorite official Apple compatible joystick has been any of the CH joysticks. I think Apple licensed it for their official Apple joystick. Unfortunately they seem to be running about $40. Vintage Apple stuff is just ridiculously expensive right now.