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"FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com" (alphaass) 07/27/2019 at 23:09 • Filed to: Apple //c

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Found a thing. Still works. Also found its unfilled warranty card and original sales receipt. Craziest part of this to me is how much the printer cost. The printer is long gone apparently.

Adjusted for inflation the IIc  and monitor cost the equivalent of around $2300 in 1985. The IIc was basically a lower cost, less upgradable IIe.  Basically it’s the 1985 equivalent of an iMac. 

facw > FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com 07/27/2019 at 23:24

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Regarding that last pic:  https://earth.google.com/web/data=CiQSIhIgYmU3N2ZmYzU0MTc1MTFlOGFlOGZkMzdkYTU5MmE0MmE

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com 07/27/2019 at 23:46

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I had one of these before a normal tower.

subexpression > FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com 07/28/2019 at 00:32

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I think the old Apple IIe is still at my mother’s house. I don’t know if it still works, though. Super Serial card, extended 80-column card , DuoDisk. The ImageWriter died and would have cost way too much to repair.

Nibby > FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com 07/28/2019 at 08:22

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haha that’s dope! how did you acquire this? if you get bored of it you can sell it for a pretty penny

FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com > Nibby 07/28/2019 at 10:48

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I found it in storage in my mom’s basement in Pittsburgh. My dad died a little over a year ago and we decided it’s time to start going through all his stuff to see what’s worth keeping. It was probably last used around 2000. He bought it new for Christmas in 1985 and the family’s first PC mainly to do taxes and track investments with the AppleWorks spreadsheet module. I was about 18 months old then. I remember my mom playing Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego on it with me when I was 5 or so. She also did all sorts of newsletters and cards with The Print Shop. We hung on to it as our main family computer until around 1993 when we got some sort of Mac Performa and then I used it to write silly little programs in Basic.

I’m amazed the 5.25” floppies still seem to have all their data. We made sure to pack it up well with everything in plastic bags and then in a padded box. The IIc isn’t exactly a highly sought-after collectible on it’s own but I’m guessing with the monitor, external drive, software and all of the original paperwork we  could probably ask several hundred for it to the right vintage hardware collector.  Hopefully as long as we have space we can hang onto it a while yet and get it out just to play with once a year.

Nibby > FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com 07/28/2019 at 12:03

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Sorry to hear about your father but that’s really cool the disks still work. If you take care of your equipment and store it properly, it should last forever. There’s also emulators like Basilisk II and SheepShaver for System 6.x and 7.x, OS9 as well

FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com > Nibby 07/28/2019 at 12:19

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Apple hardware is pretty hard to kill. I pulled the hard drive out of an original Bondi Blue iMac that was still working fine also while I was there. I’m hoping to image it and boot it in SheepSaver that I’m running on a modern iMac at home . The blue iMac itself is going for recycling. They are way too common to be collectible and too bulky to be worth storing. One thing that didn’t make survive was an old Macintosh Classic that I bought at a flea market in the late 90’s. It powered up when I was visiting around around 2014 but it was left on the floor and got water in it somewhere between them and now and it  doesn’t power up anymore.