[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.

[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.

[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.

[US_MilitaryRules]

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

[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.

[FreeReign]

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

Barn find?

[central_va]

"Achtung comrade!"

[dayglored]

Apple *ping*

[rockrr]

Of possible interest...

[sasquatch]

https://s3.amazonaws.com/boyetblog/images/K%26E+Deci-Lon+front+side.jpg

[ShadowAce]

[wardaddy]

My girlfriend in Manhattan back then was a Columbia phd candidate and bought an early Mac in 1986 I think

It wasn’t cheap even with school discount

It was basically what DOS like software Macs used then

I never messed with it but she was enamoured

[Joe Brower]

I spent a lot of time on Apple //e's when I was first starting what ended up being a lifelong career in programming.

Lots of good memories.

[Billthedrill]

“My oldest, who is 9, exclaimed “that’s a computer?!” in genuine surprise, and then pointed at the floppy drives and asked “what are those?”

The "File Save" icon still present on current apps is a bit of a mystery to people who've never seen a floppy disk. Before long the little cylinders representing a spinning hard drive will be as well.

[Openurmind]

I should plug it in and see if it still works, but I have a Tandy 1000 out there in storage. :)