Re: Your first A2.

[Stephen Shaw <xstephenx@apple2.org.za>]

I still have my IIe which I bought for about US$500 in July 1983. I still have
the invoice from the supplier. It came with one floppy (I placed an order for a
second with the machine) and a Taxan monitor. Later came an IDS Microprism
printer, enhancement, No Slot Clock and a Ramworks III. The early Apple
parallel printer card was swopped for a later model - this caused lots of head
scratching with Print Shop as the early card was NOT recognised by Print Shop.
A Monitor II was added at a later stage. I still manage to repair Taxans and
Monitor II and IIc monitors (both the Samsung and Hitachi types) as I managed
to salvage the circuit diagrams (schematics to our colonial cousins) when the
local Apple Authorised Service provider dumped them.
  
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001 19:20:06 -0700 (PDT), sirarlias@webtv.net wrote:

> I'm sure this has been asked before, but how many of you still have and
> use your first Apple II-series computer?
>
> I still have and use daily my //c, which my family bought for me for
> Christmas 1986. If I recall the CPU, color composite monitor, and
> joystick cost $1200 or thereabouts.
>
> The monitor gave up the ghost a couple years back, and the "brick"
> recently blew a capacitor (which I still need to replace). But the CPU
> is still going strong.
>
> Rob McAllister

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