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Monday, July 18, 2011

Vintage Apple

I remember working (playing) on this machine back in the 80's, learning BASIC on it and playing computer games (Snake!).

A unit costed much more than a high-end computer today but people still bought it, complete with cassette tapes, 5-1/4” floppy disks and green phosphor CRT monitors!

Apple II

Released:

April 1977

Price:

US $1298 with 4K RAM

 

US $2638 with 48K RAM

CPU:

MOS 6502, 1.0 MHz

RAM:

4K min, 48K max

Display:

280 X 192, 40 X 24 text

 

6 colors maximum

Ports:

composite video output

 

cassette interface

 

8 internal expansion slots

Storage:

generic cassette drive

 

external 143K floppy (1978)

OS:

Woz Integer BASIC in ROM

 


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