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An Apple IIe does not need the dedicated 80 column card. The IIe has an 80col card integrated and is usable by expanding the AUX memory by 2K (80col card) or 64K (64K 80col card). The 64K expansion additionally allows the use of double highres-mode (DHGR). To my knowledge, the STK ASICs (STK65301, STK65371) were made in Bulgaria in the mid 80s and are reverse engineered Apple ASICs. These clone ASICs were seemingly originally ordered by an Italian company in Bulgaria before being produced in mass and sold to anyone who was asking. These chips found their way in many different clones in the mid-late 80s. The IIe-based clones were typically of relatively high quality and sometimes sold with macro-keyboards. Clone Apple II and IIe computers were very much the norm in Europe and original Apple II were almost a rare find. Many of the European clones had their own case design, often very similar to an IBM PC with a separate keyboard. These clones were often just thrown away because they looked comparatively ugly and not special at all.

Man, I was hoping you’d hit the self portrait command. I was blown away by this machine as a kid.

Anybody remember the brand "Franklin", and their line of Apple II compatibles?? I sold them in the early 1980's. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Electronic_Publishers

It was an awesome event. That fist PET youvshow is mine. I made a board that gives video and audio output call the PET Companion. See you at the next one

Excellent video! Looks like the power-supply is also from the Apple II as the connector is not square like the lle. I too live in Canada and would like to go to the event. Do you have a link? Thanks for sharing

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I have one exactly like that but still have the brand. I'd have to dig it out. When I bought it, there were wires everywhere and cleaned them up. I wish I documented how they wired it cause it was hacked. It stopped working somewhat. I'll have to dig it out.

I know that keyboard very well - we had that computer model back in 1985, but used a slightly different ROM (Displayed "FOX-2001" instead of "COMPUTER" - I learned later on that Apple II clones were usually shipped to North America without ROMs and local resellers added them, skirting anti-clone laws). We also had two Mitac drives, though they were the slim versions. All the IIe software we had ran perfectly on it. Also, the 80 column/ram expansion in the AUX slot it came with will give you 80 column mode without the card you added. Just remove your card and type PR#3 - unless the card is faulty it will work.

Always happy to see a new BTM86 video!

Well done! Might see you at the retro event.

Awesome video! Love that COMPUTER boot message 😂 Looking forward to your setup at the WORC!

Good work!

Nice bit of software history

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And old computers' motherboards weren't oversaturated by high-end stuff. I especially adore the simpleness of the Tandy Color Computer's board.

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Excellent video. Very interesting and informative. I didn't know they were going to have white text. The P500 also has the same colour scheme as the SX-64.

Always wanted a C, but I used my OG breadbin for 8 years and I wish I still had it, but lost it in many moves over the decades.

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Man... You've totally missed the C64G - light beige breadbin - made in large amount in the total end of its era... Also, regarding the long-/short-board recognition, one should look through the vent holes on the bottom of the case, to see if there is a long board installed, or not. The keyboard differences are not telling us anything, as with the later production, all the "rest of the stock" went to the customers, so they picked what ever they've had in storage and tried to fit it together no matter what, to be able to sell every piece of old stock. So you can find mixed box versions, mixed boards, mixed keyboards. And there's more: servicing. As you've talked about the socketed chips, some of those may be the result of a service event. Just very little chips were originaly factory socketed on any board version. And same goes with mixing the keyboard / main board / case pieces. Sometimes it happens, that service man had to swap parts... But anyway, thanks for a nice video! ;-)

Ya all of what you talk is true.

Hello! Can anyone share the drivers for this laptop?

great Stuff! enjoy when you do some coding!

2:16 Use an OSSC scan converter. It's the best for retro machine ! Perfect for gaming NO frame LAG.

It was my FIRST computer mouse ! I use it on my Amiga 500 PAL in 1989 ! I never know this mouse exist before the Amiga for the C64 ! Thanks for yours vidéos. I like the background music, it's a very good choice for learn and listen to you ! Good vibes. Kisses from France.

100 in decimal is ... 64 in hex. Brings back memories. as a kid in the '80s I found a 4064 board and made a 64 out of it. The 4064 had no SID so I had to buy that and once the proper ROM was installed it served as my main 64 for years. You could also add the JiffyDOS and other DOS speeders in the list.

Ben mahn , why do u talk like a npc 😅

I wonder if there is a way to change the clock speed for the Z80 processor on the CP/M cartridge, to make things run faster? What was the default speed of the Z80 on that cart? 4 MHz?

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Amazing video! I like all these commands and functions. Still using them after all this time.

This is actually a Diablo 630 compatible printer, I believe specifically that this is a Juki 6100 rebadged for Commodore. It's a letter quality printer, but it's by no means the noisiest. Look into some of the color dot matrix stuff that prints the same line 4 times to get color - Those are much, much louder.

Holy crap. Thanks. This one goes into my upcoming "Why the C64 actually sucks" video. I did the same on my 1980 Z80 Basic machine, and it was 231 "jiffies" or how you call them regularly, 195 with X%, and only 169 with both X% and I%

My 1980 BASIC has proper ELSE, AUTO and TRON as well. It even marks already occupied lines in AUTO mode to prevent accidental overwriting. I also get the idea the /\/\/\\\///\/ pattern function is executing rather slow. Was this even worse on the C64? Again my 1980 Z80 machine is doing about twice the speed on this.

Strange the most shown computer in the video is the Commodore 64, not the best example for the criteria you mention. Easy to program? Not so much, C64 BASIC is frustrating as heck, with no proper upper/lowercase support, no insert cursor, no EDIT, pokes for making sound, frustrating SAVE to tape/disk experience. Also the "No firmware updates" is also weird in the C64 world, as I've seen 3 flavours of BASIC, where version 7 (no idea where the other ones were between 2 and 7) did not fix a thing of the bad stuff of Basic 1.

It was beautiful to see the electron beam hit phosphor glow green on the cathode-ray tube. I remember the unique atmosphere that today's LCD monitors do not have.

It's a beautiful Apple II with surprisingly little deterioration! I miss the unique color screen. I used an Apple IIe about 40 years ago, and I had built my own 6502 CPU machine language program and interface card. Now I remember the 8-bit computers of those days and make my own from scratch.

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0:28 Hey, I just noticed that Melucci, Santana and Wingate don't have first names. 😁

In Germany, there also has been the so-called "Aldi C64", a C64 breadbin, but with the short C board and a C keyboard.

I made friends with a retired professor from college back in 1987 who owned a Kaypro II CP/M computer and was a big proponent of the operating system. When I told him that my Commodore 128 could run CP/M, he gave me several CP/M disks with various software on them. I remember running dBase II occasionally on my Commodore 128 to keep track of a few small databases. Wordstar was also included, but in ran too slowly to really be usable... for word processing I mostly just used Ghostwriter 128, which was a huge improvement from Bank Street Writer that I had been using in 40-column mode as a carry-over from my Commodore 64 days. I did however run Wordstar on a PC/XT at work in 1988 - mostly for mail merges with marketing data that was exported from dBase III Plus... but I digress. Fun times.

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I never had a VIC-20, but a C64 growing up. One thing I've wondered = if you took a stock VIC-20, a stock VIC-1010 expansion unit, and stock Super Expander, 8k, and 16k cartridges, would you get more BASIC memory AND Super Expander functionality? Or was the Super Expander hard coded to use the "Stock+3k, screen stays where it is" memory map? And when I say stock, I mean stock like you somehow found a treasure trove of a MISB VIC-20, a 1010, the Super Expander and 8k:16k memory carts that hadn't even been opened, much less used.... :D

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IIRC the various utility cartridges like this one, ML monitor, and Programmer's Aid are able to work together. If you have the physical bus expander that gives you more slots and plug in the various cartridges they boot up in sequence and you can have them all running at the same time.

Ahh, the 1980s. I had exactly this printer - first with a C64 and then with the amiga. Both paid for with my paper round money (and yes, that took a long time to save up enough). Funny story, a teacher got me to write 100 lines as punishment for something (I can't remember what). I got home and I wrote a basic program on the C64 and had it print off the 100 lines with NCQ(?) settings. My teacher complimented me on my typing skills. Lol.

Can you make it sing Daisy Bell?