The LGR Apple II Collection + Unboxing an Apple IIe!
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Date: 2022-05-13
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RetroFox
The original Apple II was a yard sale find in 2017 for 5 - it was totally chance. I had asked the person if they had any old computers for sale and she said her neighbor brought one over to put in the sale and was in the garage behind her. Walked in to take a look, boom Apple II with a Disk II drive. She had no idea if it worked (nor did I) and at that time, I knew next to nothing about them (other than having used them back in school a bit, didn't even know there were different Apple II models. Brought it home, did a little testing - it worked, somewhat, initially booting the one disk that was left in the drive that had some games on it. Posted about finding it on the Twitters and LGR mentioned he had been looking for one for a long time. Being a fan and not really, at the time, wanting to get into Apple II, I took him up on the offer. Sadly, I didn't get the history on the machine prior to the yard sale, the owner wasn't there to speak to.
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The original Apple II was a yard sale find in 2017 for 5 - it was totally chance. I had asked the person if they had any old computers for sale and she said her neighbor brought one over to put in the sale and was in the garage behind her. Walked in to take a look, boom Apple II with a Disk II drive. She had no idea if it worked (nor did I) and at that time, I knew next to nothing about them (other than having used them back in school a bit, didn't even know there were different Apple II models. Brought it home, did a little testing - it worked, somewhat, initially booting the one disk that was left in the drive that had some games on it. Posted about finding it on the Twitters and LGR mentioned he had been looking for one for a long time. Being a fan and not really, at the time, wanting to get into Apple II, I took him up on the offer. Sadly, I didn't get the history on the machine prior to the yard sale, the owner wasn't there to speak to.
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Pocket
I like how there's just a single disk the school copied a bunch of programs onto. I suspect that's just how they did site licensing back then: you'd buy one copy and you were allowed to make a certain number of duplicates, which you'd have to supply your own blanks for, but it was still cheaper than buying a whole boxed copy for every machine in the lab. Our school had a bigger floppy budget than wherever this came from; each program got its own disk. Funnily enough I don't remember ever seeing _Oregon Trail_ in action until they kitted out the lab with Windows 98 PCs and moved the Apples into the classrooms for us to play with during study hall. There were just so many other things to do that were no doubt considered more educational. Number Munchers, Math Shop, Typing Tutor.
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I like how there's just a single disk the school copied a bunch of programs onto. I suspect that's just how they did site licensing back then: you'd buy one copy and you were allowed to make a certain number of duplicates, which you'd have to supply your own blanks for, but it was still cheaper than buying a whole boxed copy for every machine in the lab. Our school had a bigger floppy budget than wherever this came from; each program got its own disk. Funnily enough I don't remember ever seeing _Oregon Trail_ in action until they kitted out the lab with Windows 98 PCs and moved the Apples into the classrooms for us to play with during study hall. There were just so many other things to do that were no doubt considered more educational. Number Munchers, Math Shop, Typing Tutor.
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David
The Apple //e was the very first personal computer I ever used. My dad bought a used one off a guy who had upgraded to a Macintosh. This one came with that same Monitor /// and stand. My dad got a bunch of public domain software to use with the computer. Quite a bit of that software was buggy. Fixing the bugs in the programs written in Applesoft BASIC is what convinced me I wanted to be a computer programmer when I grew up.
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The Apple //e was the very first personal computer I ever used. My dad bought a used one off a guy who had upgraded to a Macintosh. This one came with that same Monitor /// and stand. My dad got a bunch of public domain software to use with the computer. Quite a bit of that software was buggy. Fixing the bugs in the programs written in Applesoft BASIC is what convinced me I wanted to be a computer programmer when I grew up.
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Faint
Ah, I had an Apple II+ and a IIgs which 'got lost' on the moving truck to Cali when I started working for Nintendo. Ah, I miss those. Although seriously II+ had no lower case, you don't know what hell is until you try writing a 20 page college paper, and it's not wysiwig and you have to use weird inverse mark ups, print, adjust, print again. It took me longer to fix the paper than to actually type it up
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Ah, I had an Apple II+ and a IIgs which 'got lost' on the moving truck to Cali when I started working for Nintendo. Ah, I miss those. Although seriously II+ had no lower case, you don't know what hell is until you try writing a 20 page college paper, and it's not wysiwig and you have to use weird inverse mark ups, print, adjust, print again. It took me longer to fix the paper than to actually type it up
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DrumWild
I worked in computer rentals in 1987-88, and the Apple IIc was one of our rentals that got picked up here and there. My most memorable rental involved delivering one of these to Universal Studios Hollywood. They said they'd be using it to control the shark in the JAWS segment of the tram ride. I never got to see the actual set-up, but that's one of my neat, old, dusty memories from the time.
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I worked in computer rentals in 1987-88, and the Apple IIc was one of our rentals that got picked up here and there. My most memorable rental involved delivering one of these to Universal Studios Hollywood. They said they'd be using it to control the shark in the JAWS segment of the tram ride. I never got to see the actual set-up, but that's one of my neat, old, dusty memories from the time.
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Mykel
It s just kind of filler content.
I thought, damn, it s just riffing so it s probably short. I was very pleasantly surprised to see 36: 26! Now that s what I m talking about! LGR riffing is always enjoyable and informative! And yes, when I see there s a new LGR video I click it asap. I don t waste time checking out things like length or topic. Come on! It s LG-frickin -R!
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It s just kind of filler content.
I thought, damn, it s just riffing so it s probably short. I was very pleasantly surprised to see 36: 26! Now that s what I m talking about! LGR riffing is always enjoyable and informative! And yes, when I see there s a new LGR video I click it asap. I don t waste time checking out things like length or topic. Come on! It s LG-frickin -R!
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hobbyhands
Of all my retro purchases. One of my favorite. I a simple atari 410 cassette player. Why? Well I found it at a local thrift store for 4. Guess who ever put it out though it was just and old regular cassette player: . I also got a atari 1027 for 4 at the same time. Love those finds! It's one of my favorites due to the amazing find.
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Of all my retro purchases. One of my favorite. I a simple atari 410 cassette player. Why? Well I found it at a local thrift store for 4. Guess who ever put it out though it was just and old regular cassette player: . I also got a atari 1027 for 4 at the same time. Love those finds! It's one of my favorites due to the amazing find.
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Benny
I remember an Apple retailer in the Everett mall in the 1983 or 84 ish years.
Id go in there at 13 yr old and sit at the desk, going through the demonstration software, using a mouse for the first time. The salesman was not super happy a 13 yr old was in his showroom, potentially taking valuable time away from his real clients.
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I remember an Apple retailer in the Everett mall in the 1983 or 84 ish years.
Id go in there at 13 yr old and sit at the desk, going through the demonstration software, using a mouse for the first time. The salesman was not super happy a 13 yr old was in his showroom, potentially taking valuable time away from his real clients.
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aserta
Yeah, i'd clean up all the power supplies for these before power up. They're getting quite rare and pricey as time goes on. It used to be that you could get one of these (here in Europe) for pennies, because they weren't worth all that much, now they're not something you stumble upon in normal conversation.
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Yeah, i'd clean up all the power supplies for these before power up. They're getting quite rare and pricey as time goes on. It used to be that you could get one of these (here in Europe) for pennies, because they weren't worth all that much, now they're not something you stumble upon in normal conversation.
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