Re: Your first A2.

["Mark Cummings" <NOTfigjams@primus.com.au>]

No.
I sold it after I upgraded to a IIe.
I only had a single Disk ][ and used a telly as a monitor. The display was
crap. I bought a green monitor chassis (picture tube in frame & circuit
board) and made my own metal monitor housing so I could use 80columns and
read it. The keyboard was only UPPERCASE originally, but I added the
lowercase mod by adding a push on/off switch and a change to the ROM to stop
it forcing UPPERCASE. I think you just put a couple of NOPs in the ROMs as
far as I remember.
Don't think I would ever want one again, not since I got one of those
new-fan-dangled IIes, but it would be nice to have one look at it just for
the memories.

Mark


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> 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 and use daily my file://c, which my family bought for me for
> Christmas 1986. If I recall the CPU, color composite monitor, and
> joystick cost $1200 or thereabouts.
>
> The monitor gave up the ghost a couple years back, and the "brick"
> recently blew a capacitor (which I still need to replace). But the CPU
> is still going strong.
>
> Rob McAllister
>