Re: Trying to set up an portable IIc+

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

Dave Althoff (dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us) wrote:

: : Gee seems to me that the easiest and most cost effective way way to get
: : a portable Apple II would be to get a Powerbook and run an emulator on it.

: Given that I paid $0.00 for my ROM $FF //c, $5.00 for the Version $00 ROM
: upgrade, $8.00 to replace bad RAM, and $21.00 for a portable B/W TV set
: with a composite video input, I'd say the //c is pretty cost-effective. 
: I'm up to $34.  Of course, I'm not 100% portable just yet, but that is
: mostly because I haven't had the time to work on that part of the project
: yet...

But the rub is that it ain't portable. To make it portable you need an LCD
screen, a battery pack, and hopefully a way to install an internal hard disk.
LCDs can be had for a price, but Apple's just perches on top of the //c, so
using it isn't conducive to portability. Battery packs exist, but are even
more rare than the LCD so big bucks there. Hard disks don't currently exist
so no dice. On the other hand, early Powerbooks go in the $300s nowadays,
and you could register IIe, a shareware //e emulator, for $30. You'd then
have in effect a portable Apple II that can also run Netscape and other
'90s software.
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