23 Oct
2010
23 Oct
'10
9:38 a.m.
I have told him there is no such thing as a IIa (unless it is some sort of
clone). I have asked him to check again and I have also asked him for a
picture of the machine.
Thanks
Rob
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-
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Sent: 23 October 2010 17:00
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: RE: Apple IIa
--- On Sat, 10/23/10, Rob Jarratt <robert.jarratt at ntlworld.com> wrote:
There
That is definitely what he said,
IIa.
Regards
Rob
He is probably thinking of a II+. There is no such machine as the IIa. was, however, the II, II+, IIc, IIe, and the IIgs.
A true, original II (no plus) is pretty valuable, in that it's the first
of the
line,
and they're fairly rare. The II+, which has the
exact same case,
motherboard
(different ROMs), etc - but with a badge reading
"Apple ][ Plus", is a
very
common machine, but is generally harder to find than
the IIe.
The IIe comes in two flavors - beige and "platinum". The platinum version
has
a numeric keypad. Both of these machines are EXTREMELY
common - at one
point just about every school had forty of these things. They're worth
about
ten bucks.
The IIc is a small, compact machine with a built-in floppy drive. It's
very
common as well.
The IIgs is a 16 bit machine, and is a box with a detached ADB keyboard.
These are very common too, and usually not worth anything unless they've
got some third-party upgrades like an accellerator, a SCSI controller, or
something like that.
You may, however, have some kind of clone machine - there were lots - and
they usually looked just like the real thing. Those are interesting to
people
that are in to that sort of thing.
The Apple II series was and still is very popular. There are lots of
people out
there, such as myself, that still regularly tinker and
hack on these
machines,
building hardware and writing software. If you have a
good clean working
machine, you should have no problem finding a home for it. Apple II's
without school names engraved into them are nice to find :)
-Ian