Apple IIe’s and IIc’s - Back from the Dead
I was reminiscing about the old Apple IIe’s and IIc’s that I used in my much younger years. In fact, I recall being in second grade and we were the first class to have a computer class. I liked it so much, that over the summer, I took a course at school to play around even more. It was hard to attract second through fourth graders to word processing. What we were more interested in is graphics, playing Oregon Trail and making little video games.
I don’t know if one could have really called them “games” because there was no object to them. You just pressed any button to move a dot across the screen, which could not deviate from its path. The “payoff” (I use the term very LOOSELY) was to get to the end of the screen where we X and Y plotted our little brains out to have the word “Crash” show up in all its blocky, large pixel glory when you hit the other side of the screen with the dot that was really a little square.
Here are variations on the theme. These are Apple IIe’s and c’s being awakened from their slumber after being in someone’s basement or attic all these years. Justinaurelius on YouTube explains limitations of the hard drive, and is seeking to get an old one.
Kevin Gordon gives an unnarrated approach, firing up the Apple IIe with an up close and personal camera perspective. Darnit that it is hard to read what is on the screen. It appears to be a tutorial. I don’t remember that one, but then again, we were much more enthralled by the “cool stuff.”
