Dude scores an unopened Apple IIc on eBay!

posted by Jeff | Monday, February 4, 2008, 10:10 PM | comments: 3

The first computer I ever owned was an Atari 600XL, but the first computer I ever did any substantial programming with was an Apple II+. I never had any religious attachment to Apple back then, since I was in high school, and was busy thinking about girls, if not trying hard enough to get them naked. But I still have a soft spot for those old machines.

So imagine you score an original Apple IIc, that has never been opened. This guy did. I can't imagine what he paid for it, but if this was a special thing from his geeky teen years, I can only imagine how awesome it was.

I still have floppies sitting around somewhere, presumably with the little program I wrote to store D&D profiles on disk, and print them out. Those were exciting times! Weird how I'd never do any real coding until ten years after that.


Comments

Joe

February 5, 2008, 3:51 PM #

Floppies.

I still have an 8" floppy disk from a COBOL/RPG Programming course I took in high school... Senior year... 1997. It contained the data to print out a MAD Magazine illustration of Jack Kevorkian in ASCII.

Rob

February 5, 2008, 7:16 PM #

I have an Apple ][e sitting in my basement. I think it needs a power supply and it would be in good working order. It was one of the things my parents left behind when they moved out of our house. My dad has a couple of the Apple ][ floppy drives and at least one Apple ][ lying around his basement.

I learned to program BASIC on it when I was 7 :)

Jeff

February 5, 2008, 7:31 PM #

So why aren't you writing code instead of being an IT generalist? Cross the aisle, man!


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