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I wanted one of these badly when I was a lad, even though I would have missed not having an 80 column card.

This brings back memories. I used to play the original Castle Wolfenstein and Ultima III until my eyes would bleed.
(And yes, the original Castle Wolfenstein was released in 1981: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Wolfenstein )

I was a die-hard Apple ][+ owner, and wouldn't go near a //c for anything. Built-in disk drive (good luck if that failed), no expansion slots, and no way to open up the case and mess around inside, like you could with the older Apples.

Yeah, I guess it was a lot like the Macbook Air of 1984.

My parents bought us kids one of these as a teenager. We loved it! I thought there was a chicklety button on the top that switched between 40/80 columns. We played Castle Wolfenstein as well. Although our house was never as popular as the number of kids playing games at my friends with Commodore 64s.

And you could play Pong and run Turtle and everything !

You haven't played Oregon Trail unless it's on this, or the IIe.

You're just posting porn for all the former Apple IIe owners...shame on you.
But, I still dugg it.

So if this is the MacBook Air, what is the Toshiba R500 (Which is a step up in ultra potability. http://prohardver.hu/dl/new/2007-06/24086_toshiba_ ...

I think this used an 8bit cpu called the 6502.
If you look at the opcodes for that processor it looks like a really simple and elegant assembly language to work with.
It must have been a lot of fun :-)
But it ran so slowly! 1 or 2mhz...lol. Now a 75cent AVR runs at 20mhz.
But they did amazing things with such limited power.... must have been
masters at optimizing assembly code.
http://6502.org/tutorials/6502opcodes.html

All the spanish classes at my school use the Mac II LC.

Good stuff.

I peeked and poked learning assembly using a ][e and it still works. We weren't rich enough to buy a //c, but I at least was able to hit a bbs called "The Pirate Bay" with a ][e and helped what the scene was back then.

Locksmith was the only app to counter MS's flight simulator, and by god the same thing cropped up again and again. I still have some games from them, wonder what a screenshot of the original Pirate Bay is worth. In those days I could whistle my name in the coupler. Now, GET OFF OF MY LAWN!

Technically, _this_ is an mac portable -> http://apple-history.com/?page=gallery&model=porta ...

Woz is the legend

My first computer. But I had to switch to the c64, cuz of the gaming...

I still have one. Thanks apple for early PC games as a child. Funny nothings really changed- in fact my PC now cost less than the //c did then. Still gaming...

Wow, what a wonder to behold. 

I was following links and I have a disk that (should) show this on an apple ][e or //c with the very first "windows" version of an app I remember seeing, a paint app. The only reason I liked it and remembered it was because I was approaching puberty at the time and wondered when porn would be next on a computer. And hell, with the ][e she looked pretty when I first saw it on a leaky bbs.
http://www.folklore.org/projects/Macintosh/images/ ...

As I read this .. I just kept seeing a frog, a scalpel .. and my biology teacher from 1978!

my high school still used these to teach keyboarding when I was a freshman. That was in 1997-1998. For all I know, they still use them.

My 7th grade classroom was full of Apple IIc computers. I almost miss that green monochrome screen and thin keyboard (by 1989 standards).

Got mine over 20 years ago and just sold it last year (about $20 on eBay). Great system for kid to play around with: Lemonade Stand, Virus, Star Wars, all fun games. I can still remember the familiar reading sound when putting in a floppy or the click of the keyboard. We actually learned basic programming on those IIC+ in the early 90's in school.

i think the cool set up was to have a monitor at home and a monitor at work and just carry the IIc back and forth. There was also a special little monitor sold just for the IIc. I don't think that's it in the picture. those of you with the fond apple memories must be waxing nostalgic for Carmen SanDiego right now.

I may be a PC boy but you just have to respect the Apple IIc i know I do it taught me Qbasic
10 for x = 1 to 100
20 print x
30 next x
40 end
50 print LOL oh the memories

For God's Sake, whatever you do, DON'T put that //c through a TSA agent's X-Ray machine and show us what it looks like! That would only give the terrorists vital information!

In picture seven, right above the speaker, I think you can see "(c) MICROSOFT" written on the motherboard. Is the chip above it the ROM that, among other things, had the Microsoft-provided BASIC environment on it? It would make sense, it would be right next to the CPU, a good place for system ROM.

Check out the old school phone on the desk. Did kids really have those? Phone lines were expensive.

c64 and amiga pwned you. you sad, sad waste of money apple ii

have anybody got url for that ad in HD?

Ah, you never forget your first. I had a IIc, and then I met my (now) husband and we got a IIgs because it had a colour monitor. All the peripherals were so expensive though, and hard to come by (we were living in the UK at the time).

Awesome. I used to have an Apple IIc. This brings back memory. I did take it apart a few times as well. Great semi-portable in its day.

I still remember watching Roy Schieder in the film "2010" (circa 1984) sitting on the beach typing away on his Apple //c and thinking to myself, "Cool, my little Apple will last me until 25 more years." I concur, I've never ventured into a Mac either.

Check the crazies web 2.0 video: http://digg.com/tech_news/Video_of_Crazy_Web_2_0_F ...

ahh...nothing like an old friend. i wrote my first program on the IIc in the 4th grade...an NBA basketball game in BASIC.

Only an Apple story could make the front page of digg while linking to a story that is broken into 14 PAGES !!!!!!! Any other story would be flamed , buried , called blog spam. or many combinations of the three.

Yes. 14 PAGES?!!! Come on.

dugg just because its apple

The title alone makes me nostalgic. My first two computers were a IIc and a IIe, dual external floppies with a whopping 5.25" 512KB disk. Learning how to make little color charts in basic, my first 300 BAUD modem. It was awesome. I feel geeky. Thanks Apple Computers, for making me go in the direction of Linux. Debian kicks arse =)

Stop with the stories that have one sentence on each page already. Jesus H, I'm so sick of having to click, wait for load, scroll past ad, find content, click...
If your site is that desperate for clicks, turn to pr0n.

14 ***** PAGES.

I want that bedroom.

Gyaa! Two of my friends had an Apple IIc. My parents bought me a Franklin ACE 1000, an Apple II-compatible. It was such a tank by comparison. It came with a monochrome monitor, which I used to shove angrily into the wall behind it whenever I'd get crushed by a rock in Boulder Dash.

The //c was the first portable computer made by Apple Computer. It differed from the previous //e line with its lack of slots (but had integrated peripherals) and support for mousetext. It ran at 1.052MHz but this clock speed is deceptive - the 65C02 which powered the //c (and later //e's) was more efficient than a 4.77MHz 8088 Intel CPU.

I have about 5 //c's in my shed and they still work fine. A great little 8-bit machine that is still useful for some basic tasks. Later models could handle more memory (>128KB), support a 3.5" drive and the last model (the //c+) had a 4MHz CPU.

Apple truly made some innovative machines back in its early era (1977 - 1988). It's sad that Apple's machines of today are mediocre and no different to PCs costing much less.

My very first PC - had it until 1997, when I trashed it rather than cart it 300 miles cross country. I'd kill to have it back right now...

Dugg for the EMI shield.

The //c was my second computer after the glorious TRS-80 (Tandy in the HOUSE!). I actually worked at a fast food restaurant for almost a year to make the payments on this bad bay (even 16 year olds could get Apple Credit back in the day). I still have it out in the garage, carefully packed with the original 9" green monochrome monitor with stand and all the original documentation... it's hard to let go of.

I was more of a Bard's Tale fan... but Wolfenstein was the Halo of its time...

I wish my Mac Portable was still bootable, but even if there wasn't probably something wrong with the board the battery must be toast after 12 years. I used to lug that thing around when I would take my ex-girlfriend's daughter to b-ball practice and even in the era of the first PowerBook's I'd attract a crowd of people wondering what it was. Most people assumed it was some uber-computer given the size.

I can't remember exactly but I think the friggin' battery was like 14pds or something that felt near it. I still use the strap that came with the case for it with my modern laptop bag because it's the most well made, comfortable strap I've ever seen.

Brings back memories! I had a //e and then a //c - followed by a gs and eventually a couple of early Macs. My //c was a real workhorse on which I was constantly using AppleWorks to do just about everything Office does today. What I really loved is how I could hack into it with almost no danger of doing any harm. It's amazing what you could do with the internal 5.25" floppy and an external 3.5"! We don't need no stinkin' hard drive!
I sold it a few years ago to a guy on e-Bay, who I assume was a collector. I didn't get much, but then again I hadn't turned it on for many years. It was literally gathering dust.
One of the coolest things I used it for at the time was to control the lights in my house via an X-10 interface. Worked like a charm.

Pretty sweet. I love reading about the original mac stuff.

Buried for inaccuracy. No mention of the hamster wheel that powered it.

(I kid, I kid...pretty damn interesting)

Having cut my programming teeth on an Apple IIe, this brought tears to my eyes! I still remember the impact on learning that machine, leading to the purchase of a succession of Apple computers in our household. Super Digg, thanks.

Dugg for the Motley Crue sticker.

My favorite keyboard of all times was on the IIc. Clickety-clickety.