Re: My rev-zero Apple II lives again!

[Jeff Blakeney <CUTjblakeney@sympatico.ca>]

On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 13:54:19 GMT, "Vince Briel"
<vbrielnospamme@comcast.net> wrote:

>Who else has their first computer that was an Apple ][? Where did you get it
>and do you still use it?

Well, in my case, I'd have to say that technically, I don't have my
first Apple II anymore.  In fact, the first computer I had access to
at home was a TRS-80 Color Computer (the first one with the chicklet
keyboard) that my parents purchased for one of my brothers and I.  A
year or two later, when my father was posted to Lahr, West Germany, my
brother was in college and wasn't moving with us so I traded him my
half of the Coco for his half of our role-playing stuff.

After moving to Germany I came extremely close to buying a Commodore
64 as that is all the store had in stock at the time but then they
brought in Apple IIe (unenhanced) systems and I almost immediately got
my parents to buy me one and I paid them back by giving up my
allowance and paying them more after I started working.  This gave me
a 64KB Apple IIe with a single Disk ][ drive with controller and a
Monitor // green screen.  My parents bought me a Commodore 1702 colour
monitor for Christmas a few years later as I kept hooking my IIe to
the TV in the living room to play games on.  :-)

After returning to Canada and starting college I upgraded my IIe to a
IIgs, a bit after that I got the ROM 1 upgrade and a white after that
I bought a IIgs case as a service part from an Apple dealer.  
I lost track of the original IIe case I had (which had the IIgs base
plate from the upgrade) during one of my moves but I still have the
Monitor // green screen and Disk ][ and controller.  I'm sure I still
have the IIgs case and motherboard but as I have four ROM 1 boxes
here, I'm not exactly sure which one it is anymore.  :-)

-- 
 Jeff Blakeney - Dean of the Apple II University in the
                 Apple II Community on Syndicomm.com
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