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| My cup runneth over... (Apple IIe) | |
| Posted by: luckybob on 2017-11-28 22:21:24 Another Craigslist score!  I REALLY wanted the duodisk. It even came with the cable! I must say, whomever designed that cable, and decided against self-retaining screws/thumbscrews should be flogged. Took me 10 minutes with a magnet to find the damned things... The IIe is enhanced, I'm considering de-upgrading it so I can put it back in the kit. The original chips are inside. 4 boxes of new blank SSDD disks were nice to have as well. I think this PFS stuff is some sort of office suite so this thing was used for "serious" work. They also had a whole bunch of disks "Build a book about you". They seem to be some sort of mad-libs books for kids. The adult fills in some info and it makes "personalized" books. Kinda neat. Roommates are 'very concerned' about how 'irresponsible' I am, because I spent part of the rent on this. 😛 | |
| Posted by: EvilCapitalist on 2017-11-29 05:40:34 Very nice score! Always liked how clean the DuoDisk looked on top of the //e (especially when it's the final/platinum version and all the Apple logos nicely line up on the right side). You're correct on PFS, it was a very early office suite that was supposedly easier to learn than WP or Word. I used PFS Write on the Panasonic 8086 I had at the time and it was pretty easy to use, though I'm not sure it was night and day easier than WP or Word. | |
| Posted by: olePigeon on 2017-11-29 09:34:00 There's no reason (that I know of) to un-enhance your //e. | |
| Posted by: jack on 2017-11-29 09:48:25 Nice. Was this the one labelled "Apple ONE"? 😛 | |
| Posted by: luckybob on 2017-11-29 10:41:49 yes it was. Well i have a spare enhanced board that got damaged so i was going to harvest the chips out of it and put the original chips back in the kit si i would have a complete kit. | |
| Posted by: olePigeon on 2017-11-29 12:23:41 Oh I see. Well, it'll only matter if you want to play games or use software that needs the new character set or double hi-res graphics. The PFS software, I think, needs the Enhanced chipset. | |
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