Re: Your first A2.

[a_specto@alcor.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

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.

Mitchell Spector
a_specto@alcor.concordia.ca