On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Mike Ford wrote:
> Perhaps the unfortunate thing is that I can think of nothing to do with a
> 100 old Apple II computers other than pull interesting cards and look for
> hard drives (the Vulcan is inside the powersupply). There are a couple
> models I would like to have in my personal collection, a plain II and a
> platinum II whatever it is, but thats about it. Otherwise they are just too
A Platinum //e is an enhanced Apple //e with a built-in numeric keypad on
the right hand side. It's also got the "platinum" covering. Nothing
special.
There was also a Platinum //c. It had an extremely nice keyboard (a major
improvement over the //c's crap keyboard).
> common and too indestructible (what else could you call machines that
> routinely still work just fine after 20 years of elementary school use?)
They are definitely work horses. I've never met an Apple //e that was so
fargone it wouldn't work anymore. I even have Apple ][+'s that have sat
in horrible conditions still work 20 years later, with just a few faulty
keys on the keyboard.
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Received on Fri Jul 07 2000 - 11:42:24 BST