New York Man Discovers 30-Year-Old Apple Computer Still in Working Order - Including a Saved Game

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[BenLurkin]

Pfaff restored the saved game of Adventureland, a text command game released for microcomputers by Scott Adams in 1978.

“This is tricky, because three decades later I can’t quite remember where I left off this round of Adventureland.”

Pfaff found floppy disks with several different games of the time including; Millionware, Neuromancer and Olympic Decathlon.

Besides finding games on the floppy disks, Pfaff came across saved copies of his high school assignments and a note from his late father.

“Just found this letter my dad typed to me in 1986, when I was 11 and at summer camp,” he tweeted. “My dad passed away almost exactly a year ago. It’s amazing to come across something so ‘ordinary’ from him.”

Pfaff showed off the vintage system to his own children and their reaction is what you’d expect from a generation that has moved on to an iPhone X.

[BenLurkin]

[Political Junkie Too]

I still have my Apple //e, along with all the disks, manuals, even the dot matrix printer and color monitors, upgraded ZIP chip, dual disk drive, joystick...

-PJ

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[Jane Long]

Wow.....that is treasure!!

[Bonemaker]

“I still have my Apple //e, along with all the disks, manuals, even the dot matrix printer ...”

Same here...bought in 1984. My introduction to the world of computing.

[pepsi_junkie]

Back in the day my family a Franklin Ace 1000 which was an Apple II clone. My dad was a cheapskate so no way we were getting a real Apple but at the same time he was an engineer who was curious if he could use a computer to help him with work stuff so we were on the early end of having a computer at home.

I remember begging him for three things, all of which he refused. A color monitor ("bah, I already spent extra for the amber one"), a mouse which was rumored to make gaming a lot easier ("Who cares? I don't need it for my VisiCalc spreadsheets") and a winchester drive a.k.a. a 10 MB hard drive ("Are you kidding? What would we ever do with 10MB of storage! We could never fill that much! That would be a huge waste of money!")

As a result of little storage, no color graphics, and no mouse I mostly just played text based adventure games like Zork.

[Night Hides Not]

V-ger?

[Flick Lives]

[SamAdams76]

Pfaff showed off the vintage system to his own children and their reaction is what you’d expect from a generation that has moved on to an iPhone X.

My (now grown) children have the same reaction to my old toys. They roll their eyes and go "how prehistoric, Dad."

When I tell them of my childhood with no internet, no cell phones and no cable tv, I might as well be talking about farming in the Dust Bowl during the Depression.

[Political Junkie Too]

My introduction to the world of computing.

I actually had a TI/99 before I got the Apple. I don't recall what happened to it, though.

Before that, I had one of these:

-PJ

[OrangeHoof]

I had an Atari 400 back in the mid-’80s but, frankly, it didn’t serve much purpose until I discovered CompuServe.

I still have a fully functioning PC made from a bare bones kit that runs Windows 2000 NT (it used to run Windows 98). Its main purpose today is converting audio files to CDs to be played in my car.

[gaijin]

Apple geek historian$ are totally nut$ about vintage Apple stuff.

I’d say he could be looking at some money there, if he were to sell that stuff.

[Political Junkie Too]

Actually, as a child I also had one of these:

-PJ

[US_MilitaryRules]

I still have my IBM 486? that I bought for $2500 bucks in 1993!

[Tell It Right]

My father bought me a Commodore 64 and a book by Carl Shipman titled How to Program Your Commodore 64: BASIC for Beginners. I credit that event to putting me on the path to becoming a software engineer. That book wound up impacting my life 2nd only to the Holy Bible. :)

[subterfuge]

I have one of those somewhere around here. Never used.

[Texas Fossil]

I have a Z80 machine which I salvaged and modified in 1982. It is in my ham shack, back room with a lot of test equipment. I built the power supplies and floppy drive enclosures from scratch. I bet it will still operate too. but have not tried it in many many years.

Only issue might be the floppy boot disc used to bring it to life. They have been stored a long time. Was running NewDOS80 at the time.

[Bonemaker]

I think as a child we were using these things...

[FreeReign]

New York Man Discovers 30-Year-Old Apple Computer Still in Working Order - Including a Saved Game

Barn find?