I remember having that brand back in 1988. :3 loved played Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego and Chuck Yeager's Flight Simulator on it :3

So this is how you upload your stuff to FA. : D

Hee hee.

Yeah, takes about 8 hours for one pic tho

Aaaah yes.. Ye Olde Mac Apple IIe I remember these things in Elementry. XD used to have 30minutes to practice typing, people who finished early got to play Oregan Trail, or some other 4bit game XD

Same here. They used to put a black cloth over the keys so you couldn't peek at them : ]

Yup same here XD

Good times... Good times. :P

WOW, i had no clue you were into this sort of stuff! I love old computers like this! the oldest i have is a Compaq from 1998! I would love to learn how to do this sort of thing!

Awesome. If you have any questions about retro computer stuff just drop me a message.
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I will, my first question is where do you find these? and why do you fix them? I have some idea. it's like hotrodding isnt it? :P you're brilliant.

Well, you can go to ebay and pay $200 for a museum quality apple II (which is a load of crap) or you can get them for between $0 and $40 at places like school sales, flea markets, garage sales, or other places if you know where to look. I got the computer, monitor, two disk drives, and a printer for free from a friend.
I like to fix them up because you will never find a more expandable/hacker friendly computer. There are generally no screws or anything holding the lid on so you can simply pop it off and gain access to all the components inside. There are eight expansion slots, and even if they're all empty you can still use the computer to load and save files from cassette tape. You can have about five expansion slots in use at one time before the computer stops working because of too much stress on the power supply.
It has 64 kb of RAM and about 12kb ROM, in which is a BASIC interpreter, a machine code monitor (used to talk directly to the cpu), and a miniassembler.
The things that people have done for the machine are amazing, from simple programs loaded from cassette to full blown GUI operating systems that can connect to the internet via ethernet, all with just the 64k RAM.
And then there's the backwards compatibility. When the apple IIe went out of production in '93 you could still use software on it that came out with the first apple II in 1977.

lol hope I didn't bore you too much :P

Crap, this is so fascinating! Though I wouldn't know what to do with one if I found one that needed some work

hey... i come accross an apple II clone at my mates uncles. idk much about it but it has no brand mane on it but it look just like an apple II
for some reason its missing the RF out port that is normally beside the tape I/O so i haven't hooked it up yet. anyways. im interested in learning more about it maybe you can help me out? PM me or whatever :3

beautiful piece of hardware, to bad jobs decided to kill it before its time

What does it say on the screen there?

SP

It looks like the top says "Program Files"
then "[1] Load a program from cassette"
"[2] Program in Applesoft BASIC"
"[3] Screensaver by Vectronic"
and then maybe "[4] Exit DOS" or something like that

oxo your apple has a modem..

FANCY