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As a rule I generally build my own machine and I never go with Apple but couldn't help myself I bought a pre-built unit. It looks so sleek and cool I just had to have it. Apple IIe - Wikipedia[^] 6502 or 65C02 running at 1.023 MHz 8-bit data bus Memory 64 KB RAM built-in 16 KB ROM built-in Expandable from 64 KB up to 1 MB RAM or more Video modes 40 and 80 columns text, white-on-black, with 24 lines[Note 1] Low-Resolution: 40×48 (16 colors)[Note 2] High-Resolution: 280×192 (6 colors)[Note 3] Double-Low-Resolution: 80×48 (16 colors)[Note 2] Double-High-Resolution: 560×192 (16 colors)[Note 2][Note 3] Audio Built-in speaker; 1-bit toggling Built-in cassette recorder interface; 1-bit toggle output, 1-bit zero-crossing input This is the machine on which I first started my career.
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As a rule I generally build my own machine and I never go with Apple but couldn't help myself I bought a pre-built unit. It looks so sleek and cool I just had to have it. Apple IIe - Wikipedia[^] 6502 or 65C02 running at 1.023 MHz 8-bit data bus Memory 64 KB RAM built-in 16 KB ROM built-in Expandable from 64 KB up to 1 MB RAM or more Video modes 40 and 80 columns text, white-on-black, with 24 lines[Note 1] Low-Resolution: 40×48 (16 colors)[Note 2] High-Resolution: 280×192 (6 colors)[Note 3] Double-Low-Resolution: 80×48 (16 colors)[Note 2] Double-High-Resolution: 560×192 (16 colors)[Note 2][Note 3] Audio Built-in speaker; 1-bit toggling Built-in cassette recorder interface; 1-bit toggle output, 1-bit zero-crossing input This is the machine on which I first started my career.
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Mike Hankey wrote:
This is the machine on which I first started my career
Writing Excel macros without an excel manual and never having used a mac keyboard for a power station! I'm afraid I would take an axe to one after that nightmare!
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As a rule I generally build my own machine and I never go with Apple but couldn't help myself I bought a pre-built unit. It looks so sleek and cool I just had to have it. Apple IIe - Wikipedia[^] 6502 or 65C02 running at 1.023 MHz 8-bit data bus Memory 64 KB RAM built-in 16 KB ROM built-in Expandable from 64 KB up to 1 MB RAM or more Video modes 40 and 80 columns text, white-on-black, with 24 lines[Note 1] Low-Resolution: 40×48 (16 colors)[Note 2] High-Resolution: 280×192 (6 colors)[Note 3] Double-Low-Resolution: 80×48 (16 colors)[Note 2] Double-High-Resolution: 560×192 (16 colors)[Note 2][Note 3] Audio Built-in speaker; 1-bit toggling Built-in cassette recorder interface; 1-bit toggle output, 1-bit zero-crossing input This is the machine on which I first started my career.
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If you don't count the PDP-11 I used in 7th-9th grade, Commodore PET - Wikipedia[^] yes, with the chicklet keyboard, was the machine that I started my career on. :-D
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As a rule I generally build my own machine and I never go with Apple but couldn't help myself I bought a pre-built unit. It looks so sleek and cool I just had to have it. Apple IIe - Wikipedia[^] 6502 or 65C02 running at 1.023 MHz 8-bit data bus Memory 64 KB RAM built-in 16 KB ROM built-in Expandable from 64 KB up to 1 MB RAM or more Video modes 40 and 80 columns text, white-on-black, with 24 lines[Note 1] Low-Resolution: 40×48 (16 colors)[Note 2] High-Resolution: 280×192 (6 colors)[Note 3] Double-Low-Resolution: 80×48 (16 colors)[Note 2] Double-High-Resolution: 560×192 (16 colors)[Note 2][Note 3] Audio Built-in speaker; 1-bit toggling Built-in cassette recorder interface; 1-bit toggle output, 1-bit zero-crossing input This is the machine on which I first started my career.
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Mike Hankey wrote:
This is the machine on which I first started my career.
Do you mean it's the first computer you used professionally? Or it's the computer that taught you how computers work?
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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As a rule I generally build my own machine and I never go with Apple but couldn't help myself I bought a pre-built unit. It looks so sleek and cool I just had to have it. Apple IIe - Wikipedia[^] 6502 or 65C02 running at 1.023 MHz 8-bit data bus Memory 64 KB RAM built-in 16 KB ROM built-in Expandable from 64 KB up to 1 MB RAM or more Video modes 40 and 80 columns text, white-on-black, with 24 lines[Note 1] Low-Resolution: 40×48 (16 colors)[Note 2] High-Resolution: 280×192 (6 colors)[Note 3] Double-Low-Resolution: 80×48 (16 colors)[Note 2] Double-High-Resolution: 560×192 (16 colors)[Note 2][Note 3] Audio Built-in speaker; 1-bit toggling Built-in cassette recorder interface; 1-bit toggle output, 1-bit zero-crossing input This is the machine on which I first started my career.
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Where the heck did you find one, and out of curiosity what did you pay for it? (you don't have to answer, of course)
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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As a rule I generally build my own machine and I never go with Apple but couldn't help myself I bought a pre-built unit. It looks so sleek and cool I just had to have it. Apple IIe - Wikipedia[^] 6502 or 65C02 running at 1.023 MHz 8-bit data bus Memory 64 KB RAM built-in 16 KB ROM built-in Expandable from 64 KB up to 1 MB RAM or more Video modes 40 and 80 columns text, white-on-black, with 24 lines[Note 1] Low-Resolution: 40×48 (16 colors)[Note 2] High-Resolution: 280×192 (6 colors)[Note 3] Double-Low-Resolution: 80×48 (16 colors)[Note 2] Double-High-Resolution: 560×192 (16 colors)[Note 2][Note 3] Audio Built-in speaker; 1-bit toggling Built-in cassette recorder interface; 1-bit toggle output, 1-bit zero-crossing input This is the machine on which I first started my career.
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Mike Hankey wrote:
This is the machine on which I first started my career.
Do you mean it's the first computer you used professionally? Or it's the computer that taught you how computers work?
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
Professionally
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Where the heck did you find one, and out of curiosity what did you pay for it? (you don't have to answer, of course)
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
Ebay is full of them. I got a deal on this one I bid and got it for $255. Didn't expect to get it at that price. Comes with 2 5.25 disk drives but no monitor. The guy I bought it from has been emailing me and telling me the history. He bought it new in 1980 and taught his kid to program on it and the boy has gone on to be become a successful programmer. It has a very low serial number and is in mint condition.
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As a rule I generally build my own machine and I never go with Apple but couldn't help myself I bought a pre-built unit. It looks so sleek and cool I just had to have it. Apple IIe - Wikipedia[^] 6502 or 65C02 running at 1.023 MHz 8-bit data bus Memory 64 KB RAM built-in 16 KB ROM built-in Expandable from 64 KB up to 1 MB RAM or more Video modes 40 and 80 columns text, white-on-black, with 24 lines[Note 1] Low-Resolution: 40×48 (16 colors)[Note 2] High-Resolution: 280×192 (6 colors)[Note 3] Double-Low-Resolution: 80×48 (16 colors)[Note 2] Double-High-Resolution: 560×192 (16 colors)[Note 2][Note 3] Audio Built-in speaker; 1-bit toggling Built-in cassette recorder interface; 1-bit toggle output, 1-bit zero-crossing input This is the machine on which I first started my career.
Give me coffee to change the things I can and wine for those I can not! PartsBin an Electronics Part Organizer - An updated version available! JaxCoder.com Latest Article: Simon Says, A Child's Game
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As a rule I generally build my own machine and I never go with Apple but couldn't help myself I bought a pre-built unit. It looks so sleek and cool I just had to have it. Apple IIe - Wikipedia[^] 6502 or 65C02 running at 1.023 MHz 8-bit data bus Memory 64 KB RAM built-in 16 KB ROM built-in Expandable from 64 KB up to 1 MB RAM or more Video modes 40 and 80 columns text, white-on-black, with 24 lines[Note 1] Low-Resolution: 40×48 (16 colors)[Note 2] High-Resolution: 280×192 (6 colors)[Note 3] Double-Low-Resolution: 80×48 (16 colors)[Note 2] Double-High-Resolution: 560×192 (16 colors)[Note 2][Note 3] Audio Built-in speaker; 1-bit toggling Built-in cassette recorder interface; 1-bit toggle output, 1-bit zero-crossing input This is the machine on which I first started my career.
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I've still got my TI-99/4a in the original box. It probably doesn't work anymore...haven't tried in probably 30 years, and I don't have any TVs with an RF connection anyway. I don't know why I just can't dump it in the bin. ;P Probably the same reason why I still have every single computer (except an old powermac 6100...the one that really brought me back to computers after 10 years making boxes) that I've ever built/bought. :) Nostalgia and too much room! :laugh:
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Maybe [these guys](http://thec64mini.com/) need to make an Apple II in the same way they're (re)producing the full-sized C64...
I read a while back they where going to start making the C64 and VIC20s again. Nice for us retro guys.
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I've still got my TI-99/4a in the original box. It probably doesn't work anymore...haven't tried in probably 30 years, and I don't have any TVs with an RF connection anyway. I don't know why I just can't dump it in the bin. ;P Probably the same reason why I still have every single computer (except an old powermac 6100...the one that really brought me back to computers after 10 years making boxes) that I've ever built/bought. :) Nostalgia and too much room! :laugh:
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse "Hope is contagious"
Yeah I know it's hard to part with old equipment, but at some point there's no more room. That's part of a problem I'm having now, running out of room to put all this stuff.
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Where the heck did you find one, and out of curiosity what did you pay for it? (you don't have to answer, of course)
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I've still got my TI-99/4a in the original box. It probably doesn't work anymore...haven't tried in probably 30 years, and I don't have any TVs with an RF connection anyway. I don't know why I just can't dump it in the bin. ;P Probably the same reason why I still have every single computer (except an old powermac 6100...the one that really brought me back to computers after 10 years making boxes) that I've ever built/bought. :) Nostalgia and too much room! :laugh:
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse "Hope is contagious"
kmoorevs wrote:
It probably doesn't work anymore
Probably does as long as it didn't end up underwater (damp).
kmoorevs wrote:
I don't know why I just can't dump it in the bin.
You can sell it. You won't get much but might appeal more to you that someone who buys it does want it.
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I've still got my TI-99/4a in the original box. It probably doesn't work anymore...haven't tried in probably 30 years, and I don't have any TVs with an RF connection anyway. I don't know why I just can't dump it in the bin. ;P Probably the same reason why I still have every single computer (except an old powermac 6100...the one that really brought me back to computers after 10 years making boxes) that I've ever built/bought. :) Nostalgia and too much room! :laugh:
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse "Hope is contagious"
That's the computer that got me hooked on computers. It was back in 1983 when I got mine. I taught myself assembly on that system. I know I've still got mine somewhere in this house.
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I read a while back they where going to start making the C64 and VIC20s again. Nice for us retro guys.
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"They" being that same company, yes, they're out there and available. I have their C64 mini (and the A500 mini), and had been waiting for a long time to get ahold of one of the full-size ones. I see they finally *have* started showing up on Amazon--but for CAD$400 (or USD$300). There's no way I'm paying that sort of money for what is, essentially, the same thing as I already have but in a larger housing. And, well, a working keyboard. My problem really is software. If I still had my collection, I still might splurge. Notice how they're avoiding the use of "Commodore" to identify their systems.
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"They" being that same company, yes, they're out there and available. I have their C64 mini (and the A500 mini), and had been waiting for a long time to get ahold of one of the full-size ones. I see they finally *have* started showing up on Amazon--but for CAD$400 (or USD$300). There's no way I'm paying that sort of money for what is, essentially, the same thing as I already have but in a larger housing. And, well, a working keyboard. My problem really is software. If I still had my collection, I still might splurge. Notice how they're avoiding the use of "Commodore" to identify their systems.
I had thought about a C64, that was my first home computer. The clones are looking pretty nice. How do you like the mini?
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I had thought about a C64, that was my first home computer. The clones are looking pretty nice. How do you like the mini?
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The games that came with it are okay, although I do stick with my small handful of favorites, and I like the fact that you can just place floppy disk images (if you have them) on a USB key. Its biggest "flaw" (if you wanna call it that) is that it has to rely on an onscreen keyboard, so anything that requires any amount of typing (or a specific key for some game) is a non-starter, but they were very careful about the bundled games so none of them rely on that. I can certainly see the appeal of the full-sized one, since it has a working keyboard. Nostalgia got the better of me, and that's why I own it...to be honest, most games got real old rather quickly, and it's been months I've even powered it on. But to be fair, I'm not the gamer I used to be, and I'm very selective about the games I spend time on these days (I play GTA5 pretty much exclusively, nothing else captures my interest), so that may have something to do with it. I'd *probably* get more use out of the full-sized one, but I can't justify the sort of money they want for it. And "can't justify" isn't the same as "can't afford". I just feel like I'd get very little value out of it.
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The games that came with it are okay, although I do stick with my small handful of favorites, and I like the fact that you can just place floppy disk images (if you have them) on a USB key. Its biggest "flaw" (if you wanna call it that) is that it has to rely on an onscreen keyboard, so anything that requires any amount of typing (or a specific key for some game) is a non-starter, but they were very careful about the bundled games so none of them rely on that. I can certainly see the appeal of the full-sized one, since it has a working keyboard. Nostalgia got the better of me, and that's why I own it...to be honest, most games got real old rather quickly, and it's been months I've even powered it on. But to be fair, I'm not the gamer I used to be, and I'm very selective about the games I spend time on these days (I play GTA5 pretty much exclusively, nothing else captures my interest), so that may have something to do with it. I'd *probably* get more use out of the full-sized one, but I can't justify the sort of money they want for it. And "can't justify" isn't the same as "can't afford". I just feel like I'd get very little value out of it.
I bid on it but didn't expect to get it, but at the price it's not a bad deal. I probably won't use it much but I want to do some programming and just play.
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