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Bought a new computer.
Not Windows related but thought I would share what I picked up this morning. An Apple IIe Platinum w/color display and two 5.25 floppy drives.
Not Windows related but thought I would share what I picked up this morning. An Apple IIe Platinum w/color display and two 5.25 floppy drives.
Time to get the game disks out:
Pix and specs courtesy of: Vectronic's Collections Vintage Apple Computers and Peripherals The only change made was to shorten the specs in the code box and alert that there was more specs at the link provided.Code:Specifications Core Unit:
- Processor: 1 MHz 65C02
- RAM:
- 64K onboard
- 128K with a 64K Extended 80-Column Text Card installed
- 1 MB - 4 MB possible with third party cards
- Graphics:
- Graphics Display Modes:
- Low-resolution 16-color graphics:
- 40h x 48v color blocks
- 40h x 40v with four lines of text
- High-resolution 6-color graphics:
- 280h x 192v dots
- 280h x 160v with four lines of text
- Double high-resolution 16-color graphics:
- 560h x 192v dots (Extended 80-Column Text Card required)
- Text Display Modes:
- 40-column text, 24 lines, 5 x 7 dot matrix (suitable for television or monitor)
- 80-column text, 24 lines, 5 x 7 dot matrix (Extended 80-Column Text Card required)(suitable for monitor only)
- Note:
- All graphics modes may be displayed on a television or monitor
- Composite monitor or RF Modulator to TV supported
- Storage:
- Compatible External Drives:
- Audio Cassette Tape
- 5.25-inch floppy drives (w/card)
- 800K floppy drive (w/card)
- 1.4 MB floppy (w/card)
- SCSI hard drive (w/card)
- Built-in Internal Drive:
- No internal built-in drives
- Note:
- Various third-party hard drives were available on card or by replacing the power supply
- More at link
I remember my first computer - it had a 10 MB hard drive and a 5" floppy drive! Ran only DOS programs.