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Apple iie platinum off ebay
Posted by: pball52998 on 2022-12-26 16:40:36 Received last week but just now getting around to posting it. Well after searching a bit for a iie, I bit the bullet and decided to gamble on a $100 apple iie off eBay. What will come with it? Does it really come with monitor? Opened it up, wrapped decent, would've liked a bit more bubble wrap. A monitor that didn't get crushed in shipping! No chipped plastic! (Apple iii IC labeled in the background..) Looks like it belonged to a school system. The Ponway Unified school district to be exact after some research based on address/logo. Quite yellowed, but adds to the appeal. Has a serial card and a 5.25 inch drive controller card. Only one floppy drive and a carton of disks Won't be using the disks too much as I have a floppy emu. Loaded a lovely demo up and watched through and listened to some lovely Christmas music through beeps and boops. It's not perfect, there's sticker residue that I can't get off for the life of me even with googone, the writing from the school district, the yellowing. A big 28 that was taped on top of the montior that seems perma stuck there now. The R key didn't work at all. I swapped it with the * on the numberpad. The moment I desoldered it one of the legs fell right off and that one key was incredibly gross. No other key around it. Quite odd. Every key now works except the * on the numpad though. I plan to keep the school system writing as it shows where this machine was in history. I love having just a small bit of "this was used in a school system, saved and now in the hand of a collector to have fun with" theme. Just excited to have a apple iie finally! Back to slaving away with the apple ///
Posted by: bibilit on 2022-12-26 22:49:31 Another steal… a complete system for so little is Hardy seen nowadays.
Posted by: joshc on 2022-12-26 23:56:17 Definitely a steal. The IIe Platinum is my favourite of the Apple II family. Currently the only IIe machines I can find on eBay UK are £450 and £600 and they are not complete systems either.
Posted by: Byrd on 2022-12-27 00:17:28 Nice pickup - I think nearly all have school engravings on them! Nice machines and fun to tinker and upgrade.
Posted by: CC_333 on 2022-12-27 13:12:56 I'd love to have a monitor like that for my Platinum IIe.... Mine came with a different monitor that looks like it would've been a better match for a IIc or IIgs. It is color capable, I think, so there's that. c
Posted by: pball52998 on 2022-12-27 16:22:53 Another steal… I've found quite the bit after searching for a while! The IIe Platinum is my favourite of the Apple II family. I am really enjoying it. I'd love to get a cracked iie regular and put it into a maceffects clear case. I think nearly all have school engravings on them! I noticed that! So many off ebay were just stamped/prodded with school logos. Really fascinating. I'm happy to leave mine as is. But I know a lot of people want a "clean" machine. I love seeing where it was. I'd love to have a monitor like that for my Platinum IIe.... I now have a monitor ii and a monitor iii for both my ii and iii. Just need a tiny black and white for when I build a tiny little apple i from reactive micro 🙂 I'm used to my amber monitor and my white iii monitor. The green is quite lovely and a change of pace!
Posted by: macinbot on 2023-01-08 12:15:38 Considering the sub-par packing job, I am absolutely amazed that it arrived in basically unscathed condition. Especially during the holiday rush period. The computer gods were smiling upon you. Great looking system. Just last month I drove to pickup a IIe system (you can read about it here). Mine's a bog standard IIe and not the fancy Enhanced-Enhanced version like yours. Wasn't familiar with the demo, something I'll need to track down. And I dig that you're keeping the history of its providence alive by maintaining the school documents. That'll be a nice touch when demoing the system.
Posted by: pball52998 on 2023-01-08 12:45:12 The computer gods were smiling upon you. I fully expected it to show up in pieces. The huge sigh of relief I had when I unpacked everything and to my surprise no damage! It's a bit yellowed. But for $100 I really can't complain that much.
Posted by: macinbot on 2023-01-08 13:27:24 I fully expected it to show up in pieces. The huge sigh of relief I had when I unpacked everything and to my surprise no damage! It's a bit yellowed. But for $100 I really can't complain that much. $100 US American dollars?! That's quite a deal. Hopefully you didn't pay too much for the shipping, considering.
Posted by: pball52998 on 2023-01-08 13:31:51 $100 US American dollars?! That's quite a deal. Hopefully you didn't pay too much for the shipping, considering. bought for 100 shipped for 100. I don't like to say the shipping cost! I took a huge gamble and came out ahead. Still technically $100! 😉 we don't talk about shipping But yes. USD, shipped from cali -> nc
Posted by: macinbot on 2023-01-08 22:27:00 Well we're about even. I spent $200 on my IIe with 2x Disk II and Apple mono monitor, plus whatever cards were installed. I did spend on gas (Nor Cal to Eugene) but I also spent a couple days visiting with my son and a friend on the way there and back, so it the gas only partially counts. That's what I tell myself. lol.
Posted by: CC_333 on 2023-01-09 10:05:03 I think this is about what I spent for my Enhanced IIe back in 2013-2014. It's nothing special, just the IIe itself (just an ordinary IIe, so no fancy upgrades), CRT, two disk drives, joystick and some disks. c
Posted by: pball52998 on 2023-01-09 10:06:34 joystick Got any recommendations for a joystick? I need one but haven't looked too far into it
Posted by: olePigeon on 2023-01-09 11:02:31 There's an adapter that lets you use almost any joystick (including an SNES controller), but they're about $50 shipped. However, given the price of Apple II joysticks right now, it doesn't seem so bad. My favorite official Apple compatible joystick has been any of the CH joysticks. I think Apple licensed it for their official Apple joystick. Unfortunately they seem to be running about $40. Vintage Apple stuff is just ridiculously expensive right now.
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