Re: Your first A2.

["william strutts" <wrstrutts1@home.com>]

"Mitchell Spector" <a_specto@alcor.concordia.ca> wrote in message
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> 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 my very first computer, an Apple II Plus clone
> (Golden II), which is now just turning 17 years old. Strange
> to think it's been _that_ many years ago!
>
>     I retired it to my younger brother back during the last few
> weeks of 1987, after which it was finally retired permanetly
> sometime in 1989 when he purchased a IIgs of his own. I've
> pulled it out every couple of years to tinker with, and it still
> works from what I recall, apart from one of the 74xx parts that
> detect button 0 and 1 on a joystick needing to be replaced
> and a loose RCA video jack.
>
>     It's much too sentimental to ever part with. Honestly, I think
> if someone were to offer me $1000, I'd probably turn it down.
> I feel rather sentimental about my first Apple IIgs too, though
> most of it's original parts have been long since been replaced.
> It's interesting how I have virtually no sentimental attachment
> over any modern PC's I've owned in recent years.
>

I feel the same way about my older machines:  the Mac
Plus and the RS Color Computers.  My PC's I have built
myself from parts and they don't have that appeal that the
older 8/16 bit machines did.  That is the reason why I
picked up the Apple IIgs is that it was a cool machine
that I couldn't afford in the day.  It has more appeal to
me than a pile of old PC's of any flavor--even the original
PC to me has no appeal.

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