Question for NW Apple II users. - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

7 Jul 2000

In a message dated Fri, 7 Jul 2000  1:51:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Sellam Ismail
&lt;foo(a)siconic.com&gt; writes:

<< On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Mike Ford wrote:

...
 > Perhaps the unfortunate thing is that I can think
of >>nothing to do with a
> 100 old Apple II computers other than pull >>interesting cards and look for
> hard drives (the Vulcan is inside the powersupply). >>There are a couple
> models I would like to have in my personal >>collection, a plain II and a
> platinum II whatever it is, but thats about it. Otherwise they are just too 
...
 >A Platinum //e is an enhanced Apple //e with a
>>built-in numeric keypad on
>the right hand side.  It's also got the "platinum" >>covering. 
Nothing
>special. 
...
 There was also a Platinum //c.  It had an extremely
>nice keyboard (a major
improvement over the //c's crap keyboard). 
...
 > common and too indestructible (what else could you
>>call machines that
> routinely still work just fine after 20 years of >>elementary school use?)

...
 They are definitely work horses.  I've never met an
>Apple //e that was so
fargone it wouldn't work anymore.  I even have Apple >][+'s that have sat
in horrible conditions still work 20 years later, with >just a few faulty
keys on the keyboard. 
...
 Sellam     
the platinum //e does have some differences from the regular enhanced //e besides the
keyboard. for one, the extended 80 column card was now built into the planar so you didnt
have to install a card in slot 3 anymore. I believe also the power switch was a little
better than before. I remember our computer science teacher tell us to use the apple's
power switch as little as possible since it would eventually quit working. 