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Re: Q:> Apple IIe, or IIc+ !!
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In article <B5C68953.85B6%cms@macisp.net>, cms <cms@macisp.net> wrote:
>I am little confused, between, IIe, and the IIc+
>which one offers, more features, and expansion for hardware, and software,
>and speed.
Out of the box, a IIc Plus is faster (4 MHz vs. 1 MHz for the IIe) and has a
built-in 3.5" floppy drive. OTOH, the IIe gives you 8 expansion slots to
play with, has more storage options available (including SCSI and IDE hard
drives), has more acceleration options available (up to 10 MHz), and is much
more widely available than the IIc Plus and is considerably cheaper as a
result of that wide availability. (Even on eBay, IIe prices ought to be
somewhat reasonable, though you might do better at local garage sales...or
you can see if your local school district has some machines it wants someone
to take off its hands.)
Personally, I wouldn't mind having a IIc Plus for my collection, but then I
already have a "stealth GS," a IIe, and a II+. If you're just now getting
into the II (or if you're coming back after an absence), I'd start with a
IIe. (Expandability was the reason I recommended the IIe over the IIc to my
father back in 1985...at the time, we were looking to replace a TI-99/4A for
which add-ons had become hard-to-find as well as prohibitively expensive.)
As far as software compatibility goes, for the most part they'll run the
same stuff. The only consideration is if the IIe is an older model with a
6502 and the original ROMs instead of a 65C02 and the enhanced ROMs.
There's some newer software that won't run on the original IIe (I never
liked the phrase "unenhanced IIe," probably because mine started with the
original ROMs), but you can fix that problem with an enhancement kit (find
one for sale someplace or make your own with a 65C02, a pair of 2764s, a
2732, the ROM images, and an EPROM burner).)
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