Re: My rev-zero Apple II lives again!

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast DOT net>]

"Jeff Blakeney" <CUTjblakeney@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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: 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.  :-)

Most likely the one with the IIe power supply and
keyboard connectors. Do you have more than one with
these connectors?

Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprizez };-)
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