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200% MORE FREE!!!! Bleeding edge computer components - free to good home.

wtf is that? Apple, obviously, but it looks like the thing might be as old as I am. Specs?

Nate
 
Dude, you can find someone on ebay who would probably buy that for a good amount. People are strange, yes they are........
 
Well, it appears to be part of an Apple 2 (or 2+). I remember getting one of those Apple Logo stickers and sticking it on my notebook (paper notebook, not a laptop for you young-uns). This was quite the statement to the geek set when I was back in high school!

I don't make out the CPU anywhere, but I do see those lovely monochrome monitors! Ah, the joys of BRUN, call -151, Applesoft BASIC, Apple Hi-Res graphics (all weird 7 pseudo-colors or so), ?ROGRAM ERROR, and programming guys with names like Bill Budge and Don Fudge.

And those disc drives? How many of you remember paying $300+ dollars to store 330 K (I think), and really know where the name 'floppy' disk drive came from?

Yea, I know I have just started, 'Well, if you think that's bad, you should have seen what we paid for X that does Y' (where X is some technology older than the previously compared technology, and Y is less capable than said technology!)
 
Originally posted by: DanceMan
Well, it appears to be part of an Apple 2 (or 2+). I remember getting one of those Apple Logo stickers and sticking it on my notebook (paper notebook, not a laptop for you young-uns). This was quite the statement to the geek set when I was back in high school!

I don't make out the CPU anywhere, but I do see those lovely monochrome monitors! Ah, the joys of BRUN, call -151, Applesoft BASIC, Apple Hi-Res graphics (all weird 7 pseudo-colors or so), ?ROGRAM ERROR, and programming guys with names like Bill Budge and Don Fudge.

And those disc drives? How many of you remember paying $300+ dollars to store 330 K (I think), and really know where the name 'floppy' disk drive came from?

Yea, I know I have just started, 'Well, if you think that's bad, you should have seen what we paid for X that does Y' (where X is some technology older than the previously compared technology, and Y is less capable than said technology!)
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See second pic 😀
 
Cool.. apple floppy drive!

I remember my junior high computer lab that had the old apples/floppies in them and we used to play Droll etc. on them.

I believe we paid $400 for our C64 floppy drive
 
Huh, even more free? Wow, this gets better and better.

That's where the CPU's are! These definately look like Apple 2+ (Could be 2e's, can't get at look at the keyboards to confirm). But the case is more yellow than cream, which has me think it's 2's or 2+'s.

One still has that Kensington side-car fan! And you thought IBM PC clones had loud fans!

I also see a couple of the DuoDiscs! Now, those were some prized posessions to us early privateers who attempted to 'liberate' code from those copy-protected discs! (Who remember Boot Sector Tracking and FID, anyone)? And a box of Nashua discs! Now, those were really gold standard discs! (at like $30-$40 for a box of ten!)

Thanks for bringing sweet, forgotten memories back!
 
Originally posted by: Yossarian
OMG THAT'S THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS IN EQUIPMENT!!!
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Heh, heh, you don't know how right you are! An Apple 2+, with CPU, disc drive, color monitor and dot-matrix printer costs approximately $2000.00 in 1980.
 
Originally posted by: NTB
wtf is that? Apple, obviously, but it looks like the thing might be as old as I am. Specs?

Nate
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Okay, just cause I can't resist!

The Apple 2 early-series machines ran with a 1-Mhz 6502 processor. They had as a standard 48 K (not meg, *K*!) of memory, but if you were rich, you could get the 32K extra memory board!

It had three graphics modes. Text was 40 character x 24 (you could get a card to go to 80 x 24). Low Res graphics with 16 colors and high-res graphics with 7 funky colors. It had one speaker for sound.

It had 7 peripheral slots, and you could add all sorts of cool cards: Modems (300 baud anyone?), sound cards, and the best cards: Memory snapshot cards (useful for helping you achieve that difficult crack!)

It also had some cool software: Wordstar, VisiCalc, Castle Wolfenstien and Star Trek!

The Apple 2 should also be remembered for giving birth to the innovators who are still out there: Steve Jobs, Mitch Kapor (wrote Lotus 123, and founded the EFF), and many others.

Oh yeah, there's some really rich guy in Redmond who actually used to program way back when and has his copyright on something called Applesoft Basic, and started the pay-for-software movement, when before that, it was create and give away for free. No wonder Bill Gates runs scared of open-source, it's deja-vu all over again!

 
Awww the memories in the school computer lab. Those days of yore. 😉

I could really use the wheelbarrow more than the computer right now, though. 😛
 
I have about 200k worth of token ring crap in my garage. Enough to wire a 10 floor office building easy. But no one does token ring any more. They are good for doorstops I guess.
 
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