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The wonderful part about this is the continuity — the childhood drawings, the original disk initialization date, the packaging & stickers, and the manuals. Amaz
by incanus77 6y ago
The wonderful part about this is the continuity — the childhood drawings, the original disk initialization date, the packaging & stickers, and the manuals. Amazing to have held onto it all this time.
- jerhewet 6y agoStill have my Apple ][ with manuals, etc. (also in my attic), but I'm not sure what would happen if I powered it up. Btw, not a typo above. Not ][+, not //, not //e. Apple ][, serial number 79. IIRR, it even has the floating point ROM card in one of the slots. :-)
- spongeb00b 6y agoApple IIs are surprisingly hardy but with one exception: there's a Rifa-branded line filter capacitor in the power supply that tends to blow but it's easy enough to replace (some say you can even just remove it).
- mattowen_uk 6y agoThat's exactly the capacitor that blew for the author in the article.
- appleiigs 6y agoArticle is from 2012, so nearly 40 years later. Wonder if the author still has it. As my HN username suggests, I spent a lot of time on the Apple IIGS with nearly the same experience as the author. The article brought back a lot of memories. I kept my IIGS for 15 years, but need money for school. In 2001 I put it sale on eBay. Someone from Apple bought it off me as gift to a colleague who was retiring. I was happy for it to go to someone who worked on it at Apple. Now I’m wondering if it’s still around too. They paid me something like $600 for a 15 year old computer plus another $700 for shipping (from Canada to California).