Dr. Van Thorp Posted November 17, 2004 Share Posted November 17, 2004 I have found message boards like this one dedicated to the Atari 8-bit computers. I've found Commodore message boards. I've found message boards for computers never sold in the United States. Oddly, there is a shortage of message boards for the Apple II. I remember that back in the day, the Apple II people would often look down their noses at everyone else, but now they are no where to be found. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted November 17, 2004 Share Posted November 17, 2004 Hmmm...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phosphor Dot Fossils Posted November 17, 2004 Share Posted November 17, 2004 We talk about the dear old Apple here all the time. http://www.atariage.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=52354 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JB Posted November 17, 2004 Share Posted November 17, 2004 I have found message boards like this one dedicated to the Atari 8-bit computers. I've found Commodore message boards. I've found message boards for computers never sold in the United States. Oddly, there is a shortage of message boards for the Apple II. I remember that back in the day, the Apple II people would often look down their noses at everyone else, but now they are no where to be found. The Apple 2 was crushed off the net by the massive 99/4a fan community. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrenchien Posted November 17, 2004 Share Posted November 17, 2004 apple ii's were emulated by tandy in its last years, and eventually all became xp compatibles in the schools with the software waiting maybe forever for use once more on disks long made incompatible by drives far smaller these days.. than even the disk notches, perhaps one day, of the disks once used when hundreds of kilobytes of storage.. ....was actually quite the impressive thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cootster Posted November 17, 2004 Share Posted November 17, 2004 You know, wrenchien. . . That'd be a hella mod. PC in an Apple ][E case . . . Hhhhhmmmmm . . . I have such a case . . . And an old Packard Bell PC . . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
else Posted November 17, 2004 Share Posted November 17, 2004 Double humm? http://www.a2central.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockin' Kat Posted November 17, 2004 Share Posted November 17, 2004 I find that most Apple II fans use usenet to disscuss things online. They don't bother much with webbased forums. I'd check out comp.sys.apple2 if I were you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockin' Kat Posted November 17, 2004 Share Posted November 17, 2004 You know, wrenchien. . . That'd be a hella mod. PC in an Apple ][E case . . . Hhhhhmmmmm . . . I have such a case . . . And an old Packard Bell PC . . . . if you do that you should make the //e parts you remove available for trade if you don't intend to use them. Though based on personal experience, I can't understand why you'd want to use an old Packard Bell PC for it.... Packard Bell made horrible computers with crap parts that had a terrible failure rate... it'd be a wasted effort to use that computer for the project... you should use something better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari Charles Posted November 17, 2004 Share Posted November 17, 2004 A friend of mine(who lives in a different city than I do) finally got sick of his Apple IIGS Collecting dust(it works perfectly), so he threw the computer, monitor, manuals, and all the games in the garbage(the city dump). I would have taken it off his hands had I known he wanted to get rid of it. I found out about this months after. To me, even though the various Apple Computers from the 80's are toally obsolete, they are still of historical significance. Oh well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NE146 Posted November 17, 2004 Share Posted November 17, 2004 I still love the Apple II and I STILL play it's games and sometimes even write an assembly or applesoft basic program on it for old times sake! .. not on any original hardware though. Unfortunately I no longer have those. Which is kind of strange since I still have all my console stuff Applewin though is satisfying enough for me. I often like to set the monitor to monochrome green to really get that down home flavor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cootster Posted November 17, 2004 Share Posted November 17, 2004 You know, wrenchien. . . That'd be a hella mod. PC in an Apple ][E case . . . Hhhhhmmmmm . . . I have such a case . . . And an old Packard Bell PC . . . . if you do that you should make the //e parts you remove available for trade if you don't intend to use them. Note, I said "case" . . . It's already completely guts-free . . . I snagged it from the school back in '94 after they had already partsed it out. Though based on personal experience, I can't understand why you'd want to use an old Packard Bell PC for it.... Packard Bell made horrible computers with crap parts that had a terrible failure rate... it'd be a wasted effort to use that computer for the project... you should use something better. I've had this one longer than I've had that aforementioned case (since '92) and it has never failed me once . . . Don't need it anymore, really, so I think I'll make something cunning out of it . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JB Posted November 17, 2004 Share Posted November 17, 2004 You know, wrenchien. . . That'd be a hella mod. PC in an Apple ][E case . . . Hhhhhmmmmm . . . I have such a case . . . And an old Packard Bell PC . . . . if you do that you should make the //e parts you remove available for trade if you don't intend to use them. Though based on personal experience, I can't understand why you'd want to use an old Packard Bell PC for it.... Packard Bell made horrible computers with crap parts that had a terrible failure rate... it'd be a wasted effort to use that computer for the project... you should use something better. Tried to upgrade a Packard Hell for a friend once... After trying everything to get the seccond hard drive to work, eventually narrowed things down to only one possible scenario: Packard Hell's IDE controller just couldn't drive 2 devices on one IDE channel, thereby limiting the system to 1 HDD + 1 CD-ROM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mock Posted November 17, 2004 Share Posted November 17, 2004 I love the iie...i've been trying to find a couple of people for a while that want to start up a small site just to keep up with the apple stuff...i even went so far as to get the site name but never put it up...i think it was apple2e.net or something...will have to look in my account to see which one I own. If there is enough interest i will throw a site together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stingray Posted November 18, 2004 Share Posted November 18, 2004 If there is enough interest i will throw a site together. You can count me in as interested. I'm pretty sure I've got at least one of every model of Apple ][, I love those old computers. I've got a GS with a SCSI card and a whopping 230 MB mard drive. It's amazing how much Apple ][ software you can put on a 230 MB drive. -S Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockin' Kat Posted November 18, 2004 Share Posted November 18, 2004 If there is enough interest i will throw a site together. You can count me in as interested. I'm pretty sure I've got at least one of every model of Apple ][, I love those old computers. I've got a GS with a SCSI card and a whopping 230 MB mard drive. It's amazing how much Apple ][ software you can put on a 230 MB drive. -S My IIgs has a 350MB hard drive... and a 2.2GB ORB drive as well(formated for HFS, the IIgs can see every single MB of it). I have Asimov's entire game archive as well as every IIgs game and application that is downloadable from Wit2GS? on the ORB... too much to fit in 350MB drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt Vendel Posted November 18, 2004 Share Posted November 18, 2004 I have found message boards like this one dedicated to the Atari 8-bit computers. I've found Commodore message boards. I've found message boards for computers never sold in the United States. Oddly, there is a shortage of message boards for the Apple II. I remember that back in the day, the Apple II people would often look down their noses at everyone else, but now they are no where to be found. www.applefritter.com Curt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joecool Posted November 18, 2004 Share Posted November 18, 2004 The IIGS case would make for a cool Supergun mod to play Arcade games through... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackbird Posted November 18, 2004 Share Posted November 18, 2004 I own an Apple ][e, but I haven't done anything with it yet due to lack of software. I should probably look into getting some, since it's just a waste to leave it there, unused... I snagged it off my school this past summer after they were clearing out all their old computers. And by old, I mean PC's from about '94, '95. It was I think three years ago when they threw away all the old Apple ][ stuff, and I wasn't interested back then. But lo and behold, there was a ][e that managed to hide itself, with a working monitor and disk drive, so I took it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inky Posted November 19, 2004 Share Posted November 19, 2004 I love the iie...i've been trying to find a couple of people for a while that want to start up a small site just to keep up with the apple stuff...i even went so far as to get the site name but never put it up...i think it was apple2e.net or something...will have to look in my account to see which one I own. If there is enough interest i will throw a site together. NOw where did you get that ][e? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mock Posted November 19, 2004 Share Posted November 19, 2004 haha...first one i already had...ordered a plat mb from ebay for $7 to upgrade it...lol....then got the other 5 in the motherloadfrom your garage...lmao...i have been cleaning all that stuff up when i get time....a little goo gone goes a long way...lol. thanks for the hook up...i hane not figured out how to work the cad stuff yet, but its cool to have...lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zenassem Posted November 19, 2004 Share Posted November 19, 2004 I am a Network Systems Technician For a public school district. We have literally 30 working Apple II, Apple IIc, AppleIIe, Apple IIgs's that the district will have to pay to get rid of. I'd guess that there is another 30-40 that aren't complete (broken, missing keys, but still have the boards and guts in em). Also have numerous floppy drives cables, printers (not sure if they work) etc... I had setup one of the IIgs's and it worked fine. I'd try to save them if I had room to store them. They are heavy, but if someone is really interested in one, I could catalog what's there, and you can have it for the price of shipping. I even have some software, books, manuals for them. I have a box of 5 1/4's that I use for the Atari, they mainly have Cavity Busters, Five Star Forecast, Gm Sunraycer on them. I wish I knew what happened to the Commodore 64 lab???? (I attended this shool district) ~zen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockin' Kat Posted November 19, 2004 Share Posted November 19, 2004 I am a Network Systems Technician For a public school district. We have literally 30 working Apple II, Apple IIc, AppleIIe, Apple IIgs's that the district will have to pay to get rid of. I'd guess that there is another 30-40 that aren't complete (broken, missing keys, but still have the boards and guts in em). Also have numerous floppy drives cables, printers (not sure if they work) etc... I had setup one of the IIgs's and it worked fine. I'd try to save them if I had room to store them. They are heavy, but if someone is really interested in one, I could catalog what's there, and you can have it for the price of shipping. I even have some software, books, manuals for them. I have a box of 5 1/4's that I use for the Atari, they mainly have Cavity Busters, Five Star Forecast, Gm Sunraycer on them. I wish I knew what happened to the Commodore 64 lab???? (I attended this shool district) ~zen Got any ROM 03 IIgs's? I'd like to get one of those. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mock Posted November 19, 2004 Share Posted November 19, 2004 i need a complete iigs system also... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zenassem Posted November 19, 2004 Share Posted November 19, 2004 SuperPsycho & mock, I'll try to get over there today or Monday. (They are in the basement of the Middle School). I should be able to get both of your requests. ~zen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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