Re: Apple II+

[Bryan Villados <news001@macgeek.org>]

In article <37C4E1BC.8A8C5AC8@earthlink.net>, <sheercon@earthlink.net>
wrote:

> Are these computers "collectable"? Did they make 50 trillion of them?

The term "collectible" can be defined differently from person to
person. The other replies imply collectibles as $$$$. As for me, a
collectible is something else.

I'm a total Apple Computer fanatic! I love the company and the people
that run it. To show my appreciation, I'm building an Apple Museum in
Hawaii so I can show people the various aspects of Apple technology and
how it progressed through the last 20+ years. Some of the things I'll
be showing and lecturing about are industrial design, legacy
technology, etc. That's why I'm attempting to collect one of every
Apple 8-bit, 16-bit, and 32-bit model I can afford. So far, I've got
computers from the Apple II+ to the Macintosh Centris 650, with the
exception of the Apple III+, Lisa 1, and a backlit Macintosh portable.
I'm not even thinking about an Apple I, and I can't seem to find an
Apple II for under $400.

Having one of every model would make me happy, and also pleased that I
set out a goal and accomplished it. The Apple II+ is a very special
computer to me. I learned how to program in assembly language with it.
Those skills would a few years later help me land a ROM-BIOS Engineer
position at Phoenix Technologies. The II+ I currently have includes
virtually everything I had during my kid days, including 64KB RAM, a
Hayes Micromodem II, Videx 80-column video, Epson MX-80FT printer, a 9"
color display, and two Disk II drives.

To me, assembling systems that keeps those memories going make them
collectibles. And I don't have the intentions of ever selling off any
of the pieces. So if they are indeed worth $$$$, I won't see a single
penny of it!

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Bryan G. Villados
Curator, Apple Museum For-a-Day
http://www.macgeek.org/