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Free Apple IIe Platinum System
Posted by: bigmessowires on 2023-10-13 11:17:18
A very nice retired school teacher heard that I was doing something with old TV monitors, and offered this monitor plus "keyboard", which had been stored in her garage for decades. It turned out that the keyboard was an Apple IIe Platinum with several different peripheral cards installed, a Disk II drive, a stack of 5.25 inch floppies, and a composite video monitor. I am very tempted to filch this for myself, but in the spirit of her gift I'll be adding it to the Free Stuff pile at Mactoberfest Meetup tomorrow.

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Posted by: bigmessowires on 2023-10-13 16:19:42
The included monitor works very nicely, but the IIe showed no signs of life when I tried to power it on. I didn't attempt to troubleshoot any further to see if it's a PSU or logic board issue. Either way, it should be fixable. And hey, it's got a disk II controller and a duodisk controller, plus a super serial card!
Posted by: krishnadraws on 2023-10-13 16:26:00
Excellent score! The //e platinum with the number pad is my favorite version of this system.
Posted by: NJRoadfan on 2023-10-13 16:38:19
The Disk II card is a clone made by Jameco. Don't see too many of those around.

mirrors.apple2.org.za

Apple II software mirrors

A collection of past and current Apple II FTP sites. ftp.apple.asimov.net is synced daily.
mirrors.apple2.org.za mirrors.apple2.org.za

Might want to get some high res. scans for the Apple II Documentation Project to add to their one photo.
Posted by: superjer2000 on 2023-10-13 18:41:45
A IIe platinum is my daily driver IIe. All decked out with 8mb of RAM and all slots filled. I can turn it on and it’s ready to load into proterm for bbsing before the CRT has warmed up.
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