2 Sep
1997
2 Sep
'97
7:05 p.m.
But they aren't exactly rare. At one point,
Computer Warehouse here
in Vancouver had several hundred enhanced IIe's, apparently bought
from a local school system. They also had the most enormous wall of
I wouldn't be surprised if a large number were still in schools, I've no
idea what the state of modernization is in schools though. Still the IIe
was sold until 1992 I believe, which means some are still fairly new.
IIgs's that I'd ever seen; you could've
built an entire house with 'em
if you stacked them like bricks! About 1/5th were "Woz special
editions" (not all that rare or special...)
I think I've heard numbers like 100,000 on the "Special Edition", I think
the ROM 3's might be rarer. Personally I've never seen either.
You can still buy Enhanced IIe logic boards from Sun
Remarketing.
A while back they were selling new, in-the-box, enhanced IIe's, as well.
Yeh, but I don't make enough to feel I can deal with them, besides with a
pair of IIgs's the Enhanced IIe would be a nice to have is all. Actually
I'll probably get one of the enhancement kits and enhance one of them I've
got myself. The kits are only $29 from a place called Alltech Electronics
in California. http://www.allelec.com/appleii.htm They seem to be the
outfit to deal with for upgrades and such. From what I saw on their web
page it looks like if you've got the 19-pin controller card for the IIe you
can probably drive a 3.5" floppy, I'd give it a try but all my IIe's are in
storage, I've only got the one IIgs here.
They also have some fun IIgs upgrades; SCSI, cpu accelerators, and 8Mb RAM
boards. I've got the SCSI, and want to get the other two.
However there
is a downside to the DuoDisk
you need the drive cable which since it's detachable doesn't always come
with the drive (that's how I got my second IIe, I bought it for the cable,
as it was cheaper than buying the cable).
Where can an ordinary Joe like me buy 19-pin D connectors? Weren't there
also 23-pin D's used on Amigas?