Re: I have an Apple IIe and don't know what to do with it

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

dave writes ...
> 
> sell, donate, use for some sinister puropose?
> 
> Any suggestions
> 
> seroiusly,
> 
> thanx

     Playing Tangled Tales, Magic Candle, and similar "sinister
purposes" would be fun.

     Here is some info from our FAQs which may help suggest other uses:

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010- What is an Apple II: The Apple //e

     The //e comes in two flavors: Enhanced and unenhanced. When you
start your computer, the unenhanced IIe displays "Apple ][" at the top
of screen; the Enhanced IIe displays "Apple //e". Apple made an
Enhancement kit to upgrade an unenhanced to Enhanced by replacing 4
chips (CPU [65C02], Video ROM [MouseText], and new Monitor/Applesoft
ROMs). Apple Resource Center sells a IIe Enhancement kit for $20.00. 

     The current IIe operating system is ProDOS-8. (The IIe can also run
DOS 3.3, earlier DOS's, and Pascal.) A lot of ProDOS software requires
an Enhanced //e, and sometimes 128K, too.

     A IIe Enhancement Kit does not include any extra RAM. You can
expand a 64k IIe to the standard 128k required for a fully Enhanced IIe
via an Extended 80-column card. It plugs into the Aux Connector on the
motherboard. Alltech ($19.00), MC Price Breakers ($14.95), and
Sequential Systems ($19.95) sell such cards.

     Except for being able to type and display lower-case characters,
the unenhanced IIe is very similar to the II+. A 128k Enhanced IIe adds
a number of features including 80-column firmware and 16-color
double-lores and double hires display capability.  


     The Apple //e remains useful for four major reasons:

 1) It runs AppleWorks, a simple to use, yet sophisticated
Spreadsheet/Word Processor/Database.

 2) It can run many games and other entertainment software products.

 3) There are many Apples in schools-- an example is Louis Cornelio's
room at Clairemont High School ( http://www.n2.net/clairemont/ )-- so
there is a ton of Apple II educational software.

 4) It is was and will always be a _Personal_ computer.  You can learn
as little or as much as you want, and nothing stops you from learning
about every nook and cranny in it. Ask any big name programmer in MS/DOS
or Mac where they learned to program.  Most of them taught themselves on
a good ol' Apple II.

Recommended configuration: Extended 80 Column card (gives you 128K) or
RamWorks (512K to 1MB RAM), Enhancement kit (for unenhanced IIe), and a
composite color monitor which can display decent 80-colume text, Super
Serial card, Disk ][ controller card, two 5.25" Disk ][ or compatible
drives, parallel printer interface card, and parallell-interface
printer. A Hard Drive is recommended if you use a lot of different
programs. Heavy Appleworks users should add the hard disk, extra RAM,
and a 4MHz or better accelerator (like the Rocket Chip, Zip Chip or
TransWarp). --Dan DeMaggio, Rubywand

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