My cup runneth over... (Apple IIe)

[luckybob]

Another Craigslist score!  



I REALLY wanted the duodisk.  It even came with the cable!  I must say, whomever designed that cable, and decided against self-retaining screws/thumbscrews should be flogged.   Took me 10 minutes with a magnet to find the damned things...

The IIe is enhanced, I'm considering de-upgrading it so I can put it back in the kit.  The original chips are inside.  4 boxes of new blank SSDD disks were nice to have as well.  I think this PFS stuff is some sort of office suite so this thing was used for "serious" work.  They also had a whole bunch of disks "Build a book about you".  They seem to be some sort of mad-libs books for kids.  The adult fills in some info and it makes "personalized" books.  Kinda neat.  

Roommates are 'very concerned' about how 'irresponsible' I am, because I spent part of the rent on this.  

 

[EvilCapitalist]

Very nice score!  Always liked how clean the DuoDisk looked on top of the //e (especially when it's the final/platinum version and all the Apple logos nicely line up on the right side). 

You're correct on PFS, it was a very early office suite that was supposedly easier to learn than WP or Word.  I used PFS Write on the Panasonic 8086 I had at the time and it was pretty easy to use, though I'm not sure it was night and day easier than WP or Word.

 

[olePigeon]

There's no reason (that I know of) to un-enhance your //e.

 

[jack]

Nice. Was this the one labelled "Apple ONE"?

 

[luckybob]

yes it was.

Well i have a spare enhanced board that got damaged so i was going to harvest the chips out of it and put the original chips back in the kit si i would have a complete kit.

 

[olePigeon]

Oh I see.  Well, it'll only matter if you want to play games or use software that needs the new character set or double hi-res graphics.  The PFS software, I think, needs the Enhanced chipset.