My grandma still has this and to this day, uses it. She's been using it since the 70s she said to keep track of her finances. I asked her why she never upgraded and she snapped back with "because this is all a computer should do. I like things basic."
OMG.... thought I'd never hear the sounds of those drives again.... brings back memories. And YES kiddos.... that's what the drives really sounded like!
One of my Apple Disk ][ drives sounds exactly like this, which is how I remember them from school 35 years ago. However, my other Disk ][ was nonfunctional when I acquired it, and suffered from corrosion and other problems. I did my best to clean and restore it, and although I know I'm not supposed to use grease on the rails for the head, I found that I had to use some Super Lube (PTFE) in order to get the drive to function reliably. A side effect of doing this is that it is by far the quietest Disk ][ I have ever heard. It barely makes a sound and therefore just doesn't sound right, but it works quite nicely now. All other Disk ][s I have ever used are quite loud like the one in the video.
@@RedTroPc....................... LOL .... not sure about what the "if ur still alive" was supposed to convey, but still sounds the same for a stepper seek and read for an apple disk..............
Back in the early 80's there was a kid in the neighborhood, his dad had an Apple II with color monitor, dual floppy drives and tons of games! I mean boxes crammed tight with games on 5.25" floppies. I guess today they'd be considered lame but back then they were really cool. A shame but most of those games are lost forever now.
Priceless. The sense memory that comes back from junior high. That rattling boot up noise. The tshshsht tshshsht tsht-tsht of the drive reading. And the weird expectancy of that first closed square bracket prompt. thx so much.
Holy crap, I hardly remembered these, I still remember my dad had one of these Apple IIs in like 1989 or 90 because I remember that noise it makes when it turns on.
Ah the nostalgia. We had 2 of these in my elementary school library with the catalogue system. If they were occupied, which they usually were, you had to use the 3 x 5 card catalogue drawers. I think they might have been the first computerized card catalogue system.
I learned my alphabet on this machine in 1982. My teacher told us computers weren't important yet but that they soon would be. Now I'm starting a second career as a network administrator. Just wow.
Many thanks - fun to see this old machine in such a perfect state ... my old clone from 1982 is also still running, but in an RF shielded metal IBM compatible case. I hope you realize that when just turning of the power supply, like you do all the time, you may damage the content of the floppy disks by this sudden voltage change in the drive caused by power down. Make your if you turn it off, you lift the lever of the floppy drive to make sure the data head is not down on the media. You can reset the machine by a keyboard shortcut, I believe it was CTRL-Reset ... you may also just do a CTRL-C to abort the current program and then enter "PR#6" if your floppy controller is located in its standard slot ... this will also cause a reboot from disk but without stressing the power supply. This thing also has a built in mini assembler tool ... look at this one Apple IIe - mini assembler demo ... I loved it ... this old 8 bit system is so nice to demonstrate the very basics of computing that are hard to imagine in our high level language and GUI world. It brings back so many fun memories ... really great!
This computer is what got me started. I remember lugging a greyscale "upgrade" monitor from Sunnyvale, CA to Woodside, CA as an 11 year old from a store called "weird stuff' for $75 . Multiple bus rides, then walking a few miles carry this huge monitor with many stops (it was heavy). At the time my adopted parent's thought computers were "a waste of time". Glad I "wasted' my time learning something useful. Apple ][+, Apple Cat modem, 4 floppy drives, an apple time card, Celerity BBS multi-node with FidoNet, omg those were the days. All paid for as a paperboy for the San Mateo Times Tribune. Kids these days 4k video, 60 fps, pfft. we had CGA, EGA, and omg VGA.. oh boy.. and a whole 1fps with games like Karatika, Temple of Apshai, Zork, ect..
Usei bastante o Apple nos Anos 80. Trabalhava basicamente com um programa chamado TotalWorks, da Royal Software. Na época, esse programa fazia milagres: Banco de Dados, Editor de Textos e Planilha Eletrônica.
This is the computer that introduced me to programming, it holds a special place in my heart even though I work primarily on the "IBM-PC" these days. I don't recall stacking the monitor on top of the drives like that though ;) The monitor fits snugly into the groove on the chassis if you put the disk drives on the side.
@@nadeemshaikh7863 Modern PCs are direct descendants of the original IBM PC. They've changed quite a bit, but that was their starting point, and the underlying computing architecture is still the same. In theory, you should even be able to run MS-DOS and other old software on them. The main issue is not the computer itself, but how the peripherals are different now. MS-DOS is old, so it will not run on modern storage devices--it expects floppy drives and much smaller hard drives. You should be able to specially format a modern hard drive to work, though, and an external USB floppy drive might be supported for MS-DOS through the BIOS. Speaking of which, those have changed in recent years to a different method of booting, although my modern laptop still supports the old way if you set it to. Whether all of this would actually work depends on what else might have changed that I didn't think of, but I assure you that to old software, modern PCs still strongly resemble the original IBM PC, and except for peripherals should still be able to run on them.
Damn man!!! I can my 1985 computing days as a primary schooler all the way to 1990!!! The Apple 2 will always have a computering place in my heart even though the Amstrad CPC 464 was my own 1st computer.
Oh man this is pretty cool to see how computers used to be back then. I was born in 87 and I think I remember using the early iMac computers in school in the early 90s.
born in 88, ours had Macs but a neighboring school still had IIs in its computer lab. Might have been IIgs? Even in 1995, firing up Logo felt oddly nostalgic.
The Apple II+ was a cool computer with great Graphics such as Lo-Res and Hi-Res. Integer and Applesoft Basic is cool. I first got it on Saturday, October 1, 1983 when I was 14 years old.
I used to fix the Apple ][ machines in my high schools library. Once a year, it seemed, they'd pop a chip in one of the floppy drives., or need one re-seated on the motherboard. One note, putting the monitor on top of the drives like that might look good, but if you leave a disk in them when you power up the monitor, you risk losing data on the disc. The de-gaussing coil on the CRT kicks off a hell of a magnetic field when you power up the monitor.
My (now, late) maternal grandmother and I took an intro. course on computers, she quit(unofficially) and told me "Keep going, you're going to need this someday", how right she was! BASIC on an IBM 360 1983
I'm really scared of the way this person is turning the power switch off and on again all the time. This could speed up the wear on the power supply, and anything else. Surely a soft reboot is much gentler on the hardware? Reset or Ctrl-Reset, then type "PR#6".
Back then this was all they had. There was no reset button. You just turned the power on and then off. I had a commodore 64 that did the exact same thing.
This is the coolest home computer ever built. This is a full wozniak designed computer so it was amazing for its time. I really wanna own one. but sadly they will be hundreds to buy now
Instead of turning the power on and off, you can boot from a floppy disk by entering the BASIC commands "IN#6" or "PR#6" On the Apple //e or later (except Mac 128k, Mac 512k, Mac Plus and Touch Bar Macs), you can use the key combination Open Apple-Control-Reset, Command-Control-Power, or Command-Control-Eject as appropriate.
You probably already know, but switching the power on and off like that will damage the power supply and if there is a floppy in the drive and the door is closed, it can damage it and render it unbootable. Try Control Reset or PR#6 to boot. Nice kit, I have a II+, EuroPlus and IIc and all stil in working order.
Okay, the computer shown here is not representative of an Apple II sold in 1977. The first Apple II computers used a cassette tape for data & program storage, with the Disk II floppy drives shown not released until late 1978. Likewise, the Monitor II display shown was not introduced until 1984. Earlier Apple II owners used the Monitor III (made for the Apple III), a television, or a third-party product.
This computer has been upgraded with the Autostart ROM, the one introduced with the Apple II+ in 1979. The original Apple II didn't know anything about floppy drives (the Disk ][ was introduced a year later than the Apple II itself), and booted directly into the Monitor (an integrated debugger, "*" prompt). From there, you could press Ctrl+B to go into Integer BASIC (">" prompt), or (if you had a floppy drive) press 6 followed by Ctrl+P to boot it. The Autostart ROM, on the other hand, looks automatically for a floppy controller and boots off it; if you cancel the boot with the Reset key, it goes to Applesoft BASIC ("]" prompt). Also, this computer has been modded so the Reset key only works with Shift (look at 0:53). On both the original Apple II and the Apple II+, the Reset key worked by itself (which wasn't a good idea, since it was directly over the Return key, and was easy to press it accidentally). It wasn't until the Apple IIe (introduced in January 1983) that you had to press Control+Reset to activate it, in order to prevent accidental resets.
ajgelado I'm with you on most of what you stated. I would like to add that a Ctrl+X was necessary after a cold power-up but before any other monitor command on the Revision 0 board, to purge the phantom power-up character. Also, my Apple ][+, purchased in the fall of 1981, DID have a switch on the keyboard PCB that allowed me to select RESET or Ctrl-RESET as a user preference. The spring under the RESET key was stronger than the rest, but I chose Ctrl-RESET anyways. I got a lot of use out of that particular keystroke combination while I was teaching myself 6502 assembly language, by trial and (much) error.
To be fair, my first Apple II was a IIc, and later I got a IIe, so I can get some details wrong about the II or the II+. In the IIc, it was specially handy to have the Reset key directly over Escape, so you could do a Control-Reset with just one hand when an assembly subroutine hanged (which, surprisingly, didn't happen too often to me - I guess I was being too careful!).
+ajgelado I used all version of Apple 2s and several clones. My father owned an Apple 2e Which I mostly used and I owned a Franklin Ace and a Laser 128. Wrote many programs for Applesoft basic. I currently use an AppleWin emulator. Have also used other Apple 2 emulators. AppleDos was the other one I used the most.
+0011peace That's the reason why the original Apple ][ didn't knew about disk drives - as I note in my original comment. The Autostart ROM introduced with the Apple ][+ was designed to make it easier to use a Disk ][.
yes it hast Applesoft ROM's I have some Interger ROM's too. This machine is a "mixture" you're right but the Applesoft ROM's was a typical upgrade back then and the keyboard looks that it has been changed too - the case, motherboard are original A2 - this (I belive) rev3 board was used in the A2 and the A2+ parallely.
This video reminded me of a time when I was trapped on a damn island that no one could find. On this island had a bunker underground, and in one of its rooms that was full of huge old computers, and there was a computer similar to this of the video, it stood at the only table that was in this room, and was the only one that had screen. In this damn computer I had to keep typing a sense of numbers every 108 minutes, it was something quite annoying and the alarm that the bunker fired when they lacked 4 minutes to zero the count of 108 minutes was more annoying yet. Although the counter was 108 minutes, you could not type anything before the meter reached 4 minutes and the alarm began to sound. If no one typed the numbers the alarm was getting louder and more annoying when it reached 2 and 1 minute. Even so I was very curious to know what would happen if no one typed the numbers and the counter reached zero.
In today's time when people complain about how their precious Wi-Fi signal delays for a couple of seconds, I want to address to their attention the time consumption it took to boot up an Apple model two. There was no such thing as an easy stream. If one disk did not communicate with another, you didn't have a computer to operate at work that day.
Nice. I still have my Apple ][e, monitor, at least one drive, a shoebox full of what's probably demagnetized floppys by now, plus a whole selection of slot card accessories, including a megabyte card (that seemed like a hell of a lot of RAM back then...). I was still writing software for it up until the early 1990s.
I agree with MrStarb777, pressing Control-Reset and then typing PR#6 to reboot is much easier on the Apple II power supply, than switching it off then on again. This can lead to premature power supply failure, as I found out back in the days when replacement Apple II power supply cost hundreds of dollars.
Nice computer! You've got a late model Apple II to II+ transition model. The motherboard was built in December, 1979 (Rev 3 or 4 transition model) with II+ components (gold power supply, keyboard with flat power light). In '79, the only difference between an Apple II and a II+ were the ROMs. The II had the old Integer Basic ROMs and no autostart. You can easily tell the difference because a II will have an empty socket in position D8. My guess is you either have a very late model II that was upgraded to a II Plus but the deck lid wasn't traded out. Or you have a II+ with a II deck lid. Impossible to tell. I used to do these upgrades in High School at an Apple dealership. The upgrade shipped with new ROMs and a new deck lid with the II Plus emblem.
To be honest, I think if Apple were to like manufacture a few of these, there will still be a niche market for collectors because despite being a thousands times less powerful than the smartphones we have in our pockets, you can't deny that this computer still looks cool as a piece of history. I know there are a lot of people who would spend thousands just for collectibles of practically anything.
My grandma still has this and to this day, uses it. She's been using it since the 70s she said to keep track of her finances. I asked her why she never upgraded and she snapped back with "because this is all a computer should do. I like things basic."
Cool story wow one in use
lol very likely a joke
Some one should tell the old coot, you can use basic on pretty much any computer.
Gramma don't take none of that bullshit
I am still using kodak no1 camera made in 1914.
OMG.... thought I'd never hear the sounds of those drives again.... brings back memories. And YES kiddos.... that's what the drives really sounded like!
One of my Apple Disk ][ drives sounds exactly like this, which is how I remember them from school 35 years ago. However, my other Disk ][ was nonfunctional when I acquired it, and suffered from corrosion and other problems. I did my best to clean and restore it, and although I know I'm not supposed to use grease on the rails for the head, I found that I had to use some Super Lube (PTFE) in order to get the drive to function reliably. A side effect of doing this is that it is by far the quietest Disk ][ I have ever heard. It barely makes a sound and therefore just doesn't sound right, but it works quite nicely now. All other Disk ][s I have ever used are quite loud like the one in the video.
this comment was from 11 years ago, watch the video again [if ur still alive]
@@RedTroPc....................... LOL .... not sure about what the "if ur still alive" was supposed to convey, but still sounds the same for a stepper seek and read for an apple disk..............
This is an incredible technology for the time. Nice to see those old computer are still working.
I remember putting my finger over the light on the keyboard and pretending I was E.T.
I remember a kid in class poked out the plastic over the light and burned his finger on it
@Barry Manilowa I swear to God, I will take you to Detroit.
ET's finger lights up
Back in the early 80's there was a kid in the neighborhood, his dad had an Apple II with color monitor, dual floppy drives and tons of games! I mean boxes crammed tight with games on 5.25" floppies. I guess today they'd be considered lame but back then they were really cool. A shame but most of those games are lost forever now.
the games are mostly available online, check this for example: www.virtualapple.org/
not...today we have shinny crap and gold hidden treasures because games can look good but inside of them is a devil searching for you money
i think old computer games like those are quite fun. i would never consider them “obsolete” or “lame”.
Nice!! Amazing it took 9 of these Apple II computers linked to an Altair 8800 machine to run the “Tic Tac Dough” gameboard from 1978-1986
Ah yes, I finally got the new computer
Congratulations buddy!
Hiw much time it took u to make this comment?
Internet explorer is so slow that it goes backwards in time. 🤣
Are you the icon from the Microsoft Windows?
@Saksham Gupta r/wooooosh
The sounds of those floppy disk drives just took me back to my childhood in the early 80s. This video is a real time machine. Thanks for sharing!
Priceless. The sense memory that comes back from junior high.
That rattling boot up noise.
The tshshsht tshshsht tsht-tsht of the drive reading.
And the weird expectancy of that first
closed square bracket prompt.
thx so much.
In 1977 the retail price of this machine was $1,300.
Adjusted for inflation, that was about $5,200 today.
O.o
WickederThanThou Hmm, Chinese labor?
WickederThanThou Still a nice investment if you wanted to give your business an advantage.
+WickederThanThou
Actually, computers have had deflation.
the new imac starts at $5000 before upgrades. some things never change
0011peace
that's irrelevant. the US dollar is what's inflated, not the computer.
Holy crap, I hardly remembered these, I still remember my dad had one of these Apple IIs in like 1989 or 90 because I remember that noise it makes when it turns on.
Seeing one of these in action, back in the day, is why I knew then and there that computers would never be for me.
Ah the nostalgia. We had 2 of these in my elementary school library with the catalogue system. If they were occupied, which they usually were, you had to use the 3 x 5 card catalogue drawers. I think they might have been the first computerized card catalogue system.
I learned my alphabet on this machine in 1982. My teacher told us computers weren't important yet but that they soon would be. Now I'm starting a second career as a network administrator. Just wow.
ahhhh, the nostalgia of the good old times
Das waren noch Zeiten. Denke gerne daran zurück. Aber war auch ein echt teurer Spaß. Hatte damals auch einen wie im Video.
sauteuer Gerät
Many thanks - fun to see this old machine in such a perfect state ... my old clone from 1982 is also still running, but in an RF shielded metal IBM compatible case.
I hope you realize that when just turning of the power supply, like you do all the time, you may damage the content of the floppy disks by this sudden voltage change in the drive caused by power down. Make your if you turn it off, you lift the lever of the floppy drive to make sure the data head is not down on the media. You can reset the machine by a keyboard shortcut, I believe it was CTRL-Reset ... you may also just do a CTRL-C to abort the current program and then enter "PR#6" if your floppy controller is located in its standard slot ... this will also cause a reboot from disk but without stressing the power supply. This thing also has a built in mini assembler tool ... look at this one Apple IIe - mini assembler demo ... I loved it ... this old 8 bit system is so nice to demonstrate the very basics of computing that are hard to imagine in our high level language and GUI world. It brings back so many fun memories ... really great!
My mother bought me this machine when I was 7 years old. It was amazing and I miss it.
This computer is what got me started. I remember lugging a greyscale "upgrade" monitor from Sunnyvale, CA to Woodside, CA as an 11 year old from a store called "weird stuff' for $75 . Multiple bus rides, then walking a few miles carry this huge monitor with many stops (it was heavy). At the time my adopted parent's thought computers were "a waste of time". Glad I "wasted' my time learning something useful. Apple ][+, Apple Cat modem, 4 floppy drives, an apple time card, Celerity BBS multi-node with FidoNet, omg those were the days. All paid for as a paperboy for the San Mateo Times Tribune. Kids these days 4k video, 60 fps, pfft. we had CGA, EGA, and omg VGA.. oh boy.. and a whole 1fps with games like Karatika, Temple of Apshai, Zork, ect..
My old grade school still had these
computers back in the late 80s and even into the early 90s.
My grandpa has a computer like this. He’s still alive but he told me that he wrote in his will that it will be passed over to me when he passes.
Very cool. And it still functions! Woz is a genius.
Usei bastante o Apple nos Anos 80. Trabalhava basicamente com um programa chamado TotalWorks, da Royal Software. Na época, esse programa fazia milagres: Banco de Dados, Editor de Textos e Planilha Eletrônica.
Eu podia jurar que era esse computador que tinha no objetivo, Colégio onde eu estudava em 1989 e 1990
This is the computer that introduced me to programming, it holds a special place in my heart even though I work primarily on the "IBM-PC" these days.
I don't recall stacking the monitor on top of the drives like that though ;) The monitor fits snugly into the groove on the chassis if you put the disk drives on the side.
IBM PC? In 2015?
@@nadeemshaikh7863 all mordern x86 PC are technically IBM PC.
@@asmc1492 How exactly?
@@nadeemshaikh7863 because they are x86
@@nadeemshaikh7863 Modern PCs are direct descendants of the original IBM PC. They've changed quite a bit, but that was their starting point, and the underlying computing architecture is still the same. In theory, you should even be able to run MS-DOS and other old software on them. The main issue is not the computer itself, but how the peripherals are different now. MS-DOS is old, so it will not run on modern storage devices--it expects floppy drives and much smaller hard drives. You should be able to specially format a modern hard drive to work, though, and an external USB floppy drive might be supported for MS-DOS through the BIOS. Speaking of which, those have changed in recent years to a different method of booting, although my modern laptop still supports the old way if you set it to. Whether all of this would actually work depends on what else might have changed that I didn't think of, but I assure you that to old software, modern PCs still strongly resemble the original IBM PC, and except for peripherals should still be able to run on them.
Happy 40th Birthday Apple II. Introduced at the West Coast Computer Faire on April 16, 1977
😎
Great video! I love the sound of those old disk drives! They sound like they're from the Nostromo!
Damn man!!! I can my 1985 computing days as a primary schooler all the way to 1990!!! The Apple 2 will always have a computering place in my heart even though the Amstrad CPC 464 was my own 1st computer.
Apple owes much to the genius mind of WoZ
Oh man this is pretty cool to see how computers used to be back then. I was born in 87 and I think I remember using the early iMac computers in school in the early 90s.
born in 88, ours had Macs but a neighboring school still had IIs in its computer lab. Might have been IIgs? Even in 1995, firing up Logo felt oddly nostalgic.
I remember the beeper when you turned on the Apple II computer good ol days BEEEEP LOL
That was the best part. Also when reading the floppy disk.
yeah those bring back my childhood days and once in a while you would hear the buzzer due to the disk
+Matthew “RockinMan” Hendrix yeah!!! That Is why i'm thinking to buy one. The good old days
+Ricardo Venegas it's really hard to find maybe you can find it on ebay and or amazon or something or maybe your local pawn shop
Matthew Hendrix
Just acknowledge the apple II team, just the top guys
Eren Nova *one guy. Steve Wozniak designed all the hardware.
have a mimosa and relax
No, the apple II is the past
Such memories! I wrote the entire first draft of my first self-published novel on an Apple II. That computer fit me and my writing needs like a glove!
Lost & Found in Louisville?
I miss that colorful apple logo!
Me Too
no; it looks like gay flag😂😂😂
morales immature
@@harveyruiz7332 so which is the problem?
@@badbooks2 He didn't say that there's a problem, he said *he* doesn't like it because it looks like the gay flag. What is your problem?
The Apple II+ was a cool computer with great Graphics such as Lo-Res and Hi-Res. Integer and Applesoft Basic is cool. I first got it on Saturday, October 1, 1983 when I was 14 years old.
I used to fix the Apple ][ machines in my high schools library. Once a year, it seemed, they'd pop a chip in one of the floppy drives., or need one re-seated on the motherboard.
One note, putting the monitor on top of the drives like that might look good, but if you leave a disk in them when you power up the monitor, you risk losing data on the disc. The de-gaussing coil on the CRT kicks off a hell of a magnetic field when you power up the monitor.
jesus christ are you like 50 now
@@baragonkunfan94thesecondar60 Jesus Christ, Millennials are stupid.
Eu tive um destes. Gostei muito de ouvir os sons do teclado e discos. Obrigado pelo vídeo, foi uma boa recordação da minha adolescência.
Lauro Ren t
Muito show amigo!!!
My (now, late) maternal grandmother and I took an intro. course on computers, she quit(unofficially) and told me "Keep going, you're going to need this someday", how right she was! BASIC on an IBM 360 1983
Where did we come from! These were really great things and they were the light to our day. We will not forget you dear Steven Paul Jobs.
looks like Fallout terminals.
omg it does
xD
OMG WUT?
YOU MEAN FALLOUT WITH COLOR GRAPHICS CAME OUT BEFORE TERMINALS LIKE THAT ACTUALLY EXISTED.
ikr
Sn4rFx I think that's what Bethesda based it on
Fantastic. Apple products are always great.
I'm really scared of the way this person is turning the power switch off and on again all the time. This could speed up the wear on the power supply, and anything else. Surely a soft reboot is much gentler on the hardware? Reset or Ctrl-Reset, then type "PR#6".
***** That switch is in the back ON PURPOSE! That is to avoid accidentally turning off the computer while having spent hours making a program.
Back then this was all they had. There was no reset button. You just turned the power on and then off. I had a commodore 64 that did the exact same thing.
love your collection of these great computers of the past.....they are my number 1 hobby....
This is the coolest home computer ever built. This is a full wozniak designed computer so it was amazing for its time. I really wanna own one. but sadly they will be hundreds to buy now
1:35 that sound sequence will always be in my memory.
Cool Review on the Apple II Computer! 2 Thumbs up!
It only proves how incredibly far Technology has come in just 40 years....
From 1977 to 2019, many things change
And not all to the good!
@@EberKlaushartinger You're right
This is cool, thank you for this video !
and
Woz, oh man genius :D
steve is a genius aswell, if it wasn't for him we would have never seen this!
Instead of turning the power on and off, you can boot from a floppy disk by entering the BASIC commands "IN#6" or "PR#6" On the Apple //e or later (except Mac 128k, Mac 512k, Mac Plus and Touch Bar Macs), you can use the key combination Open Apple-Control-Reset, Command-Control-Power, or Command-Control-Eject as appropriate.
I wanted to see the word processor in action.
Some real work on those old machines.
It's so retro and I know it...let me rephrase that! It's so retro and I love it!
Made in the USA. Take me back to a time when we made our own electronics.
And here we are, in 2018, with an iPad that is around billion times more powerful than the Apple ii.... Wow. Apple has come a loooooong way.
Yes true but back those good ol days nothing beat the innocence and innovation that you could truly wrap your mind around. Extremely creative times.
I learned assembly language on an Apple ][+, and still have my //e, //c and Laser 128 clone. Fantastic machines.
You probably already know, but switching the power on and off like that will damage the power supply and if there is a floppy in the drive and the door is closed, it can damage it and render it unbootable. Try Control Reset or PR#6 to boot. Nice kit, I have a II+, EuroPlus and IIc and all stil in working order.
What a beautiful computer
Nice clean beautiful computer.
R u still online after 8 years?
Okay, the computer shown here is not representative of an Apple II sold in 1977. The first Apple II computers used a cassette tape for data & program storage, with the Disk II floppy drives shown not released until late 1978. Likewise, the Monitor II display shown was not introduced until 1984. Earlier Apple II owners used the Monitor III (made for the Apple III), a television, or a third-party product.
This computer has been upgraded with the Autostart ROM, the one introduced with the Apple II+ in 1979. The original Apple II didn't know anything about floppy drives (the Disk ][ was introduced a year later than the Apple II itself), and booted directly into the Monitor (an integrated debugger, "*" prompt). From there, you could press Ctrl+B to go into Integer BASIC (">" prompt), or (if you had a floppy drive) press 6 followed by Ctrl+P to boot it. The Autostart ROM, on the other hand, looks automatically for a floppy controller and boots off it; if you cancel the boot with the Reset key, it goes to Applesoft BASIC ("]" prompt).
Also, this computer has been modded so the Reset key only works with Shift (look at 0:53). On both the original Apple II and the Apple II+, the Reset key worked by itself (which wasn't a good idea, since it was directly over the Return key, and was easy to press it accidentally). It wasn't until the Apple IIe (introduced in January 1983) that you had to press Control+Reset to activate it, in order to prevent accidental resets.
ajgelado I'm with you on most of what you stated. I would like to add that a Ctrl+X was necessary after a cold power-up but before any other monitor command on the Revision 0 board, to purge the phantom power-up character.
Also, my Apple ][+, purchased in the fall of 1981, DID have a switch on the keyboard PCB that allowed me to select RESET or Ctrl-RESET as a user preference. The spring under the RESET key was stronger than the rest, but I chose Ctrl-RESET anyways. I got a lot of use out of that particular keystroke combination while I was teaching myself 6502 assembly language, by trial and (much) error.
To be fair, my first Apple II was a IIc, and later I got a IIe, so I can get some details wrong about the II or the II+. In the IIc, it was specially handy to have the Reset key directly over Escape, so you could do a Control-Reset with just one hand when an assembly subroutine hanged (which, surprisingly, didn't happen too often to me - I guess I was being too careful!).
+ajgelado
Apples originally came with tape drives.
+ajgelado
I used all version of Apple 2s and several clones. My father owned an Apple 2e Which I mostly used and I owned a Franklin Ace and a Laser 128.
Wrote many programs for Applesoft basic. I currently use an AppleWin emulator. Have also used other Apple 2 emulators. AppleDos was the other one I used the most.
+0011peace That's the reason why the original Apple ][ didn't knew about disk drives - as I note in my original comment. The Autostart ROM introduced with the Apple ][+ was designed to make it easier to use a Disk ][.
Bought today my first AppleII machine - Apple-IIe... Not so interesting as1977 AppleII, but it's so hard to find any AppleII class machines in Russia)
yes it hast Applesoft ROM's I have some Interger ROM's too. This machine is a "mixture" you're right but the Applesoft ROM's was a typical upgrade back then and the keyboard looks that it has been changed too - the case, motherboard are original A2 - this (I belive) rev3 board was used in the A2 and the A2+ parallely.
The Apple II was a blessing, and a curse. It had lots of sales, but it also caused the executives to stifle innovation.
Wonderful demonstration!
My high school in the 90's had these in the remedial classes... basically all the troublemakers, so I'm familiar with it.
The world is not yet computer dependent that time, and life was easy then
This video reminded me of a time when I was trapped on a damn island that no one could find. On this island had a bunker underground, and in one of its rooms that was full of huge old computers, and there was a computer similar to this of the video, it stood at the only table that was in this room, and was the only one that had screen. In this damn computer I had to keep typing a sense of numbers every 108 minutes, it was something quite annoying and the alarm that the bunker fired when they lacked 4 minutes to zero the count of 108 minutes was more annoying yet.
Although the counter was 108 minutes, you could not type anything before the meter reached 4 minutes and the alarm began to sound.
If no one typed the numbers the alarm was getting louder and more annoying when it reached 2 and 1 minute.
Even so I was very curious to know what would happen if no one typed the numbers and the counter reached zero.
nice dream
Very,Very Nice! Amazing. I Love Apple ][
I don't
Too young
That beep takes me back. ][e in 1983.
In today's time when people complain about how their precious Wi-Fi signal delays for a couple of seconds, I want to address to their attention the time consumption it took to boot up an Apple model two. There was no such thing as an easy stream. If one disk did not communicate with another, you didn't have a computer to operate at work that day.
This computer is called "Mother" in Alien, 1977.
That keyboard click sound. 😍
This was the type of computer I used in secondary school.
Nice. I still have my Apple ][e, monitor, at least one drive, a shoebox full of what's probably demagnetized floppys by now, plus a whole selection of slot card accessories, including a megabyte card (that seemed like a hell of a lot of RAM back then...). I was still writing software for it up until the early 1990s.
Me: I need a better PC for my games.
Mom: We have a great PC at home.
PC at home: this
My very first computer, when I was about 5 years old.
I agree with MrStarb777, pressing Control-Reset and then typing PR#6 to reboot is much easier on the Apple II power supply, than switching it off then on again. This can lead to premature power supply failure, as I found out back in the days when replacement Apple II power supply cost hundreds of dollars.
Computing in style
Ah the days of DOS. Such simpler times.
I like all the demonstrations and how they used their hand instead of talking to show the copying process.
i never forgot those sounds; i first heard those in 1982
Who knew that using an Apple II would be this simple and easy?
Nice computer! You've got a late model Apple II to II+ transition model. The motherboard was built in December, 1979 (Rev 3 or 4 transition model) with II+ components (gold power supply, keyboard with flat power light). In '79, the only difference between an Apple II and a II+ were the ROMs. The II had the old Integer Basic ROMs and no autostart. You can easily tell the difference because a II will have an empty socket in position D8. My guess is you either have a very late model II that was upgraded to a II Plus but the deck lid wasn't traded out. Or you have a II+ with a II deck lid. Impossible to tell. I used to do these upgrades in High School at an Apple dealership. The upgrade shipped with new ROMs and a new deck lid with the II Plus emblem.
Gold is gold......lovely system. Apple machi es are a value.
The best computer of all time.
Oregon Trail.
Wow...that sound when u turn it on. 5th Grade 1986
super starting presentation
I still shut my computer off every time I decide to run a different app.
Keyboard sounds... aowwww yeahh
Love the sound of the keyboard :)
To be honest, I think if Apple were to like manufacture a few of these, there will still be a niche market for collectors because despite being a thousands times less powerful than the smartphones we have in our pockets, you can't deny that this computer still looks cool as a piece of history. I know there are a lot of people who would spend thousands just for collectibles of practically anything.
awesome review. i miss old computer
懐かしいApple2、研究所で使っていました。初めてBasicでプログラムしました。
I also have an Apple II. I use it as a stand for my TV set.
Steve Wozniak is real genius
Nice to meet you, it is Japanese. The AppleⅡ, I saw for the first time. It is a 5-inch floppy disk,
the history of the personal computer I feel.
1977 was the year my mom was in Woodberry Hills Elementary school that time kidgartden in the 70's when Apple II came out
I own an Apple IIe and it's manuals. I grew up with it. One of my favorite to do was hack the Apple II monitor within rom. Fun times! 64k heaven!
Excellent great video
0:52 the knocking sound will always be my favorite quick
Achja, eine Woz-Maschine :) Sehr schön.