Look at what I got this morning - from 1984 to 2009

Congrats... I have several Apple IIs right now. The //c was my first Apple. Someone bought an Apple //c NIB less than a year ago on ebay and it went for crazy money. :)

The cable being bundled all ratty suggests that it wasn't new, but still looks great.
 
Congrats... I have several Apple IIs right now. The //c was my first Apple. Someone bought an Apple //c NIB less than a year ago on ebay and it went for crazy money. :)

The cable being bundled all ratty suggests that it wasn't new, but still looks great.

Ya, I saw that - it went for $2600 and then he opened it. That was nuts. I would have kept it NIB and then bought another one to set up for about $50-$100.
 
I love Apple II. My preference is the IIe because that is what I had when I was 12. I still have my original IIe, but it does not work. However, I have 3 or 4 IIe computers I picked up on eBay. All have dual disk drives (I never could afford a second disk drive as a kid), System Savers, Apple II Joysticks, etc., and I have TONS of software. Tons. Its all out in the desert though boxed up. I can't wait to have the space to have that stuff out so I can mess with it. I still buy Apple related stuff quite often and stick it away if I can get a good deal on barely used stuff.

You paid $2600 for a NIB IIc? Crazy. For that much money, you could have 26 barely used IIc computers if you bought them over time.

- M1A
 
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I love Apple II. My preference is the IIe because that is what I had when I was 12. I still have my original IIe, but it does not work. However, I have 3 or 4 IIe computers I picked up on eBay. All have dual disk drives (I never could afford a second disk drive as a kid), System Savers, Apple II Joysticks, etc., and I have TONS of software. Tons. Its all out in the desert though boxed up. I can't wait to have the space to have that stuff out so I can mess with it. I still buy Apple related stuff quite often and stick it away if I can get a good deal on barely used stuff.

You paid $2600 for a NIB IIc? Crazy. For that much money, you could have 26 barely used IIc computers if you bought them over time.

- M1A

Naw, I didn't pay that much. Only $125. There was another guy who paid that much but was new and still sealed. Here is an article about it:

http://www.macworld.com/article/132241/2008/02/apple2.html
 
Just last week I bought 90 blank DSHD 5.25 disks for $14.33 delivered. New in box, unopened. Maxell and 3M.

- M1A
 
I love Apple II. My preference is the IIe because that is what I had when I was 12. I still have my original IIe, but it does not work. However, I have 3 or 4 IIe computers I picked up on eBay. All have dual disk drives (I never could afford a second disk drive as a kid), System Savers, Apple II Joysticks, etc., and I have TONS of software. Tons. Its all out in the desert though boxed up. I can't wait to have the space to have that stuff out so I can mess with it. I still buy Apple related stuff quite often and stick it away if I can get a good deal on barely used stuff.

You paid $2600 for a NIB IIc? Crazy. For that much money, you could have 26 barely used IIc computers if you bought them over time.

- M1A

If you want to get that original IIe repaired, PM Channelmanic. He used to repair Apple IIs and clones for a living. Now he repairs all sorts of stuff, but your boards would be in good hands.
 
Just last week I bought 90 blank DSHD 5.25 disks for $14.33 delivered. New in box, unopened. Maxell and 3M.

- M1A

You still use floppies on a PC? I picked up a bunch of 5.25" SSDD disks and I still have my disk notcher. I also grabbed some 3.5" double density too. They were all NOS. I should probably sell some on here because I grabbed a big lot of abot 500 of each type.
 
Neat. We had the Apple IIe computers when I was in school. I remember a school software program called Bank Street Writer from computer class at school.
 
You still use floppies on a PC? I picked up a bunch of 5.25" SSDD disks and I still have my disk notcher. I also grabbed some 3.5" double density too. They were all NOS. I should probably sell some on here because I grabbed a big lot of abot 500 of each type.

I only use them on the Apple IIe. I'll buy a big lot of old random disks, copy them, then resell. That way I have my copies on nice, clean, new disks, and not random garbage from someone else's disk file.

- M1A
 
I only use them on the Apple IIe. I'll buy a big lot of old random disks, copy them, then resell. That way I have my copies on nice, clean, new disks, and not random garbage from someone else's disk file.

- M1A

You said they were high density disks in your post. I would be surprised if last very long. It seems like I tried HD disks BITD and they didn't even work.


That is cool if they work though.
 
what can you do on a computer that old , besides playing Oregon Trail of course?
 
What games can't you play on it?! :)

Someone wrote a 'simple' progam that you can type in on the console of an Apple II to transfer disk images from a 'modern' computer over the serial port, and it'll write the image back to disk... very useful for dumping old software back to floppies, but since most of the cool games had 'hard' protection (ie, laser holes, half/quarter/spiral tracking, etc) it won't work for everything....
 
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