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To: Stoat

My first machine was an Apple IIc. I was one of probably five people in the world who bought one. It came with a blazing 1.77 MHz Motorola 65C02 microprocessor, two 64K “bank-switched” RAM boards, a green monochrome monitor and a built-in 5 1/4” floppy drive. The OS (ProDOS) had to be loaded from a system disk every time the machine started and it had a built-in BASIC interpreter coded onto the ROM (the “Monitor ROM”). I still have the machine and all the peripherals, including AppleWorks, Apple’s integrated spreadsheet, database, and word processor.


54 posted on 04/01/2012 8:13:16 AM PDT by IronJack (=)
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To: IronJack
It came with a blazing 1.77 MHz Motorola 65C02 microprocessor [...]

Well, close. The 6502 was MOS Technology. But the architecture was similar to the Motorola 6800, from which the 6502 was copied by the designer who had jumped ship from Mot to MOS Tech.

67 posted on 04/01/2012 8:46:05 AM PDT by Erasmus (BHO: New supreme leader of the homey rollin' empire.)
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To: IronJack

I had one of those too!!!


112 posted on 04/01/2012 12:18:09 PM PDT by roscommon
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