I gave my Dad his first computer (46 years later)
Inside this box is my dad's first computer. And no, it's not just the same model. This is the actual computer he and my uncle bought in 1979. It was the first computer anyone in our family owned. And I don't think my dad's used it since the early8s. That's almost 50
years ago before I was born. My dad's coming over today and I'm going to get him to unbox it and see if it still boots up. I don't think I've seen uh any of these in many, many decades there. There was a day when my brother Mark was making money be late teens becoming an adult and uh my dad saw him going up to the arcade thing and I went up there once. My dad's like go up there and see
I think you spend a lot of money up there maybe you can. So I went up there and and uh looked around all the machines and it's like Mark Mark high scores on a lot of them. So I went up to Mark and I said you know you can get a computer and play the all the games you want. You just buy the game and put it in there. But at the time they were pretty rough. like it was not as exciting as the pinballs and the relays and the lights and the uh bells that would go off. Uh but it was pretty cool.
He ended up buying one. So we bought it by him paying for it and me helping him. And uh and we got this Apple 2. I had seen it at a computer store uh a computer show in St. Louis the year before. This guy was sitting at the
table next to him and he he just sat there bragging about how beautiful it was the inside the board. So, uh, anyway, we got it, put the, uh, the chips in it. We did like 16K, I think, originally, and we had to buy an upgrade. I I don't remember if we put that in at the same time or not, but it was quite an experience, and we had the fear of touching those leads while you're plugging in those chips and static charging and blowing out a a very expensive memory chip. All right, see
what's in here still. So, take a look in this folder here. Oh my goodness. How much did you pay for
this thing? $1,242.7 and it has your name on it. Yeah, I know. Interestingly, it has my name on
it. So, maybe it's my computer. Uh, no, it's just uh that's amazing. Computer country that, you
know, it's funny. You have little memories of some of the stores. They used to be home-owned stores all the time that sold all the computers. Uh, you'd go up there and shake the hand of the guy who had an inventory of a few of them. He ordered them. Uh, amazing. So, yeah. I wonder what cuz it's also has
the super mod RF modulator so you could put it on channel 3 of your television. See, it's pretty good. 16K came with it. 1195 32 K expansion RAM. So you have 48
total was $300. That's 32K, not Meg, not gig. That was before the PC existed, I believe. I don't I'm not sure. before the IBM PC exist. Before the IBM PC existed. Yeah. And all the momentum that got behind that. It was a busy few years in computing. Yeah. Computer country. Look
at that. Charter member. Charter membership. I just must have been financially a step ahead of him. Otherwise, I my name wouldn't have
been on any of that. Well, you you weren't going to the arcade and putting all your quarters into Well, that's definitely true. I wasn't doing that. But I was also And you were married, too. I think I was married. What was the date on that? Cuz I was married cuz I Yeah, I was already married. The warranty is over. I see here the
warranty card. So, the reference manual, which I don't know if that came with the computer or not, but I think Well, I've heard it called the red book. I assume that Waznjak had a little bit to do with the publishing of this book. So, I'm looking I don't see his signature on it, but I see his work on it. I don't think he came to St. Louis for the delivery of
this one. Apple Too Basic. There you go. We uh I remember we did a program. I I don't know if it's in any of those tapes, but it was it drew the Starship Enterprise. Pixel by pixel. Go up up, make it white. Go up up up, make it
white. We we drew that and spent hours Well, Mark spent more of the hours on that later on. I'm guessing he got Oh, I remember this one. Apple bowl. That was uh that was fun, too. As fun as we
bowling. We No, but we did. We both liked the bowl and you could hit that button and watch it and watch it and watch it. You got to have to experience it. I'm sure those are in prime condition. So, well, there's a good chance they work because of how simple they are, but you have to stay close to the computer.
Their cables aren't too long. So, here's that drive. This is why you paid so much for that drive. So, you could get 128 I don't remember what it was. 128 kilobits or 640 kilobytes. Kilobytes. I don't
think it was 640 back then. I think that was 128 or something like that. Yeah. I don't know. But you paid for that. paid a little extra for the extra easy to read sticker on the back. So, that's
something without a I wonder if the is the cable unpluggable inside because you can't unplug it from the back. Yeah. Uh it's interesting is got serial number and it's like 110713 like was that the hundth one made or the thousandth or was it the 110,000th model made? It look great. It's a leather case. It looks like is
that real leather? Yeah, it has it has the Apple logo without the bite taken out of it. Yeah. Last time I saw this was probably 20 years ago at Mark's house. We got it out just for fun at some party that was at his house.
[Applause] Did it work back then? And it did work. It turned on. Huh. There it is. So, as I recall, we pull it back now. Nope. Oh, I pop it. Yeah, that was a Joe Garling
modification. Keeping that noise down. Joe Gerling, the radio engineer. Yeah. So, why did you guys need to put like I guess that's just aluminum foil. It was a bit noisy so you could hear in other devices. Noisy being like soundwise. No RF noise coming out of there. We even
put stuff on the side. We left a little airflow, but we put their stuff inside there. I don't know if you can see the aluminum. I can see it back there. But, you know, trying to run cables around and and do experiments, uh, we did. Yeah, we did a because the first the first batches of these didn't have any RF shielding, but I think that later ones did. Yeah, there was a little group like like probably through that club, the computer club, but uh there were little groups that used to have discussions about, you know, I have a problem of this and we you're always looking for problems like why isn't the program loading? You know, you got and it goes on and on. It takes
like a two minutes to to get this program to load and 3/4 the way through it blips out, but the next time it loads fine. And so there was all that discussion about RF and interference and uh all you had to do is bring a radio nearby or why does why does dad keep yelling at us when we turn on the computer that his AM radio is going dead on the car. Exactly. Yeah. So anyway, but that was that uh tips and tricks from uh back then. Yeah. And you could see it it was laid out beautifully. This was one of uh I think Waznjak was always proud of the beauty of the layout, you know, the uh it's just a beautiful technical thing at that time to have something like that in your house. It
was pretty cool. And it's missing a key. What? It's the uh So, how close is that? I think it's the repeat button. Is it? Yeah, it said RP. I mean, this is this is the one that probably fires. Fire fire. So, no. I well I was reading about it if if if I'm right if that's the repeat button then like nowadays if you want to repeat like 50 spaces you just hold down the space bar but back then you'd press space and then you'd hit repeat and it would start repeating the key. Gotcha. Something like that. Yeah.
Might as well see the bottom. Now this has a number one 7901. This is in like the first year of Apple 2os. Oh, here's a Yeah. And there's the serial number. Serial number 14196. And I believe that at that point they were putting the serial numbers in order. So this was
like the 14,196th Apple 2 made. Wow. Which is kind of cool. Yeah. Speaker is not dry rotted. So that's good. Kept it in some good. What is this? What is this contraption up here? Uh that is a de modulator. It looks like. Doesn't that look like a uh TV to to your TV? See, it's got a video output here. Yeah.
There there's that cassette input. Yeah. That was our first data thing. It's like we'll give them a Where do you plug the floppy in? I don't see a port. Well, that that could be this guy here. I
don't know. That doesn't look like the cable. Oh, it probably goes straight on the board. Wait. Oh, like up here. Yeah,
probably right there. Stick cables right through these little slots in the computer. Yep. Yeah. Get the cable in. Oh, wow. Get the cable in and flick that around. That seems more inconvenient. Oh, there you go. It's just like
that. Yep. Computers were weird. Not inconvenient. thing came with a cable and you plugged it in. It came with whatever memory you ordered it with, but we everybody knew you could order it with the And now that'll change probably over time, right? That Apple won't charge exorbitant amounts for extra RAM. Well, at least on this one, you could upgrade it. Yeah, on all the modern. Yeah, you could upgrade it. And it's uh
like I said, it's 16K 16K 16K as I recall. Yeah. And I think that there's I was thinking about these little Yeah, these little guys. Memory select. Yep. Look at that. They had these little modules that like told the computer how much RAM was in the banks. Yeah. And then where's the 6502? That guy right there. Right above the Apple. Yeah. Yep. That's
it. That that chip powered the whole generation of computers. Yes, it did. Not just the Apple. So yeah, if you turn this on, will that power supply smoke? I was reading that the Apple 2 motherboard doesn't have any caps or anything to worry about. The power supply does. Mhm.
Yeah. So power supplies what the only concern is the power supply turn on it smokes. If it did anything radical right there, what would it do to the board? That's I think if if anything radical happens, we unplug it very quickly and and then it's a project to fix up the power supply. But I I think that somebody even makes replacement power supplies now, too. There you go. Well, there's a screw cuz you always have to if you have to take something apart too many times, you'll always have a screw left over. It would be interesting to
know where that was from. Or some plastic dry rotted and the screw popped out. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that that's aluminum screen. That's what exactly what it is from a screen door. Yep.
Yeah. Is that part of the RF shielding as well? That it was part of the RF shielding for sure. Homegrown. And then there's like just bolted on. Is that copper or something? What is this? Uh yeah, that's Yeah, it does look like I don't know. That might I don't know. It's I don't know what the metal that is. The edge, it does look like copper, but the edge looks like aluminum. It's
whatever you had sitting around. Yes. Whatever we had that was uh in the gearing household from all the broken things that nine kids can break, right? But I don't know if you have you have a HDMI or what do you have? Well, that's the funny thing. So, there's uh cuz it's got composite out. The the modding
community Whoops. It's got a ruddy The modding community has come up with this, which you can pull out of there. A lot of people when they use these things, well, first of all, if you have a TV, you can just plug it into an old TV. But a lot of people use like an a little com composite, I think that is. Yeah, composite. Composite to HDMI adapter,
but those do weird upscaling. They don't look great. So, the modding community has built a board that's uh A2DVI V4. This is the V4. It's one of the newest
ones. And it uses a Raspberry Pi Pico. Huh. to translate the composite signal out of here into HDMI. I'll be darn. So, we could try. I don't know how to put that in yet in case something does happen. Mhm. But we do need a composite
input, which most TVs still have. No. What? Not Not that one. Not that one. But I do have this one from an old tower site that might Oh, yeah. That one. And
it'll have accurate colors. It's also very heavy. But it's a Sony Trinitron, you know. Yeah. Sony. And those were they their accuracy was the big deal. Color accuracy. Adjustability. It has a
few inputs for sure. You might be able to find one of those that works. I just noticed I don't Oh, there's a there's an adapter here. Good. So, we can plug into that. Why don't you move these out of the way, too? Do you want the monitor? Let's move all the flammable material out of the way just in case. All right. And then we need a com RCA cable. Uh,
and that one that that is a little bit dirty there, but it should little crummy. Give us a crusty. Yeah, you got an RCA audio cable. I know I have at least some audio cables. Yeah, I think I have a video cable in here too somewhere. Yeah, the yellow is the
video. You guys see one right there? Now, it might have audio with it. Yeah. I'm going to just give it a little work it a little bit. Hopefully, we get something out of there. And that's video
A in. So, we need a power cord for this guy. I have two over there. Plug this guy in. Now, when I plug it in, it looks
like that was a modification that there was no the power button probably quit turning it on and he probably bypassed it or I may have gone over there and done that. Don't touch the power supply. So, you ready? Yep. Oh boy. Here we go. Well, power. Oh, the power lights on. Do you have to press the power key to turn on? No. Oh, that doesn't even move. Oh, okay. Well, and then we could unplug it,
plug that in, and see if we get a noise out of it. You know, I did not bring a floppy to floppy. I have some floppies I bought. We can see at least if it gets power through to that. That would be
interesting. This looks like it's not turning on. Yeah. So far, there's no smoke out of the power supply. All right, we're going to try the floppy drive. Looks like that's the floppy card, right? Yeah, that is. It says disc
one, drive one, drive two. Disc two interface card. So, was that an add-on, too? You bought that card with the drive. Yeah. All we had in the beginning
was cassette. You had in, audio in, and audio out. Yep. Which I bought because there was no cassette player with this. I bought a uh this guy in case you want to do a cassette input. I'm guessing
that's similar to the ones that you had in the the 80s. Yes. Yeah. Okay. Power came back on. And then we need to put a floppy in, I presume. Yep. Okay, let me grab grab one of those brand new floppies out of there, which supposedly should work with the Apple 2.
Okay, you got that covered. There it is. Floppy because floppy. Look at that. Oh, nothing. I thought it beeped when I when you put power on. I
thought it went beep. I thought it made a beep. Are you sure that's supposed to not move? Don't Don't break it. But it looks like nothing's happening. Like the board's not alive. I just noticed that there's a ROM card with a switch on it. It goes down and
up. So, we're going to try it in the that position. Ready? Yep. Still made the sound. The power lights
on. Uh the disc is in. That's not doing anything. It's acting like no power. Unplug again. And then we'll flip it down. Oh, there we go. Beep. That's what we
wanted to see. Okay, so ROM card down, but uh that's not doing anything. Then on here. Oh, look at that. Look at that. Okay, so I think it's Wait, I I made a post-it note here. So, uh, you type E 000G. Enter. That didn't do it. Okay. Control uh, I can't hit reset. Control reset.
And then, okay. Okay. Now I type in load. Now it's ready to load something from the cassette disc, which we don't have. But there's definitely stuff
happening. Yeah, that's all. That looks like a sync issue though, right? Yeah. Well, I'm going to stop recording for a minute and we're going to uh debug a little bit. So, we're trying to figure out that video sync issue and we found the pin back there is going to I can't focus. Yeah. The the video pin back there goes through a resistor and then a little there's a pin there. I guess
that's for something. And then there's a variable resistor, a little pot. Yep. You can see on the the diagram here.
Composite video out goes through resistor goes to R11 200 pot. I see the 200 right above that pot. And it looks like that's the one. Yep. And it comes in the output of the transistor that's right next to it. Uh Q3. So that I think that's our level. So we'll see where Mark had it. See if we can turn the
level up and it helps sync. That'll be great. Yeah. This is these are the fun things that we dealt with in analog days. I remember doing a couple of these
kind of things. Look at this. So, this is an auxiliary video jack. We saw that that goes up to the magic second board here. That's the jack. And it does actually carry composite on it. See that? So, there's like a a Yeah, this is a board. Has like two monitors. Why is that there? Is that a second monitor high resolution? No. Is it because the
other jack wasn't working? I don't know. Okay. I'm going to turn it on down here. Okay. Okay. I turn it up. Oh, it got Oh, it's brighter. Yeah. And dimmer. Way dimmer. Yeah. So, that's the drive level. Yeah. So, that's not the problem.
But that's not the VSync. Well, on the old TV, on the old TVs, there was a knob in the back you could turn to get some sync help. Well, this one has RGB gain and bias, but not sync. Yeah. So, we're definitely getting output on the computer. It's just the the video sync is not working. And we also don't know if this floppy drive, which is not plugged in at all, is going to work.
Yeah. Well, that's if you to get the basic. So, you have to have that switch down, right? The switch down. Yeah, the Oh, the switch is up right now. Yeah.
Okay. Let's turn the switch down. Okay. Reset. Control B. No. And you didn't get the A prompt. Oh, no. Now, yeah. Now we have the little charact. So, we're in basic.
Yeah. Type run. Thing's flashing on the screen. Type run and carriage return to execute demonstration program.
Yeah. Syntax here. U it's capital R U N. It's got and well it's it's only caps. The U is not working on here.
So I can type RN but not R U. Yeah. So, we have keyboard issues, too. Well, we were about to get the uh A2 DVI card and install it, but then Dad found on the back a vertical hold. Vertical hold, which may help us. So, we're going to see if adjusting that will uh fix our video issue here. Okay. Ready? Oh, is it
on? Okay. Now, spin that knob. Hey, look at that. We're getting close. Oh, I can't go any further. Oh no, we got so close. Did you see that? Oh yeah, you just messed something up big time. I just wiggled this. You made a big doodoo. Oh,
it just went really badly. That shouldn't have done anything. Well, it definitely Oh, there's uh all kinds of random gibberish. Control B. Now it's doing all kinds of weird stuff. I think you made it power off and on. You might have nuked that thing.
I can scrambled it. Back to back to question marks. And then what's the thing you hit? Reset. Shift reset. Control reset. It's right here. Control reset. And then what? Load. L O A D. Return. Return.
It's the same thing just shifted. What does this say? Overcan. Oh, it went. Hold on. Go
back. Get in there. Yeah. Yeah. Ah, there we go. It's a tinier, but it works. And you know, it's got this switch back here, too. What's the switch? 16 by9. There you go. Yeah. Do
4x3. Oh, the other one. Yeah, that. Yep. Hey. Okay. So, now we need to do the Let me switch the ROM card. And then, uh Oh, you did something weird. No, I did something weird. See if
there's something getting super hot in here. So, the TV is getting hot. So, the RAM the RAM chips at the top there are not getting very hot, but those are getting hotish. And then, can you lift up that cable? The Yeah. So, those four chips, the CPU is not getting too bad, but that's getting up to 60° C because somebody did say something online about like, oh, well, when they're warm, they behave like this, and when they're not. So, when these chips
are getting up into the 60s, focus. When some of the chips are getting up to the 60 Celsius, it might be concerning. I don't know. It's been off for a little bit. Things should be cooled down a little bit. Let's turn it back on. And we still got the question marks. So, we got the Apple 2 DVI with a little Raspberry Pi Pico on it. And
supposedly it plugs into any slot. We're going to do slot three. But, uh, it came with these instructions. So, and a nice color print out, too. Very fancy. There's all these other extra things, too. There's a
switch for character select and a port for HDMI and all that, but we're just going to plug in an HDMI cable through here. And throughout and there. Yeah. Okay. Okay. I plugged in the 165 Hz gaming monitor. And uh we got the card installed and the HDMI cable is routed through that hole. Push the button. Yeah. You want to push the power button.
We'll see what happens. Beep. DP. No signal. That's all right. We don't want display port, though. We
want HDMI. But we see Oh, look at that. Look at that. And there's a little Oh, there you go. There's all kinds of stuff. This is looking a lot better.
Programming. Well, no, that's like the junk. And then what did it say? Like do how to clear the screen. Is it shift P P? But that's after. That's for the
basic though, I think. Reset. Okay. And then shift P. Okay. There is. It didn't clear it, but it's got control B. That facing.
Look at that. What's a command that we can run? Oh, well they had the one uh they had the one for the demo. Remember you run and you couldn't get it because you couldn't do the E. Yep. So if I type in R U Nope N RN syntax error. So now we have the that's working. That's the way we always
started. Done. Where's that cassette? Where's that cassette player? That's the genuine 1979 experience right there. That is we used to plug in the cassette. You type whatever command to get ready for data to come. You hit play on the cassette. If I do load, does that work? So, we can type load. Uh, and then it's
going to wait for put in cassette data. Yes, I think that's what it is. Why don't we take out the cassette player and see what we can do? All right, let's do that. And pick a cassette. Applesoft
Apple Bowl 32K. Uh, load at 30 mark. What? Look at that. Pinball. Athell, an Intercept, but also Stairway to Heaven and Piano Man, if you want multi-purpose cassette. Yeah. All
these old analog things. Boom. There's a reason I kept all these cables. That is at the end. So, we got to rewind. Hopefully, it doesn't rip the cassette. It's working well. The head should be clean. Yeah, it's brand new.
Yeah, I'm forgetting. It's been probably 20 years since I used a cassette tape. Yeah. The more it rewinds, the faster it rewind because this head is go moving much faster than that one. Yes. Because it doesn't have much tape. But that'll start speeding up and this one will slow down. Yep. But think of the fun two
brothers could have talking while this was going on waiting. How did you do things in the '8s? They're sided waiting to be able to type in uh pin whatever load go and then it would bowl for you. It was amazing. I'm just going to listen to it for a second here. Right. We're about uh we're over half probably 60%. I just want to hear. Stop.
See if there's anything. Okay. So, nothing yet. You also can imagine the hum you might get out of that or the noise. And Apple back then was selling those ferite kits. You wound your cable through the
ferite core, try to eliminate any uh hash coming out of it. See, now they're moving fast. faster. So if we hit play, will it go fast if I do that? No, I I It's not playing right now. The head is gone. [Applause] Okay. [Applause] That sounds like computers. Yep. So
rewind. Rewind. Uh if I play. Okay. Ready? Yep.
So now, do you know it's loading? We might have to We probably should have typed load again. Yeah. Or break. Whatever you do to hit break, reset and do it again or something. Yeah. Escape. Just hit stop. Just hit stop. Don't unplug it. Stop. Okay. Let's try it. Escape. But now let's do reset. Okay. And then control. I I
wonder if this is B or not. B is basic. Yeah. Load. Try load. Oh, it didn't get the L. H. Yeah, there's backspace. Where is backspace? I just realized that the one that's missing. No, that's
that's repeat. So, oh, yeah. Let's try L O A D. Oh, okay. That looks like something different. I wonder if that came in a little bit. That came in. So, taxes.
It's April 16 today. Did you do your taxes? Give me a break. And then is it return? Yep. Now try to load. of which all characters were return. Okay. Should I get this queued
up though? Right. No, no, no. I don't have to do it like immediately, but uh yeah, try that. Return now. Seems like it's waiting. Seems like it. But I mean everything I we don't want anything to be taken as data. Oh, okay. Just there
it is. Okay, let's see what it does. Is that how you do it? Yeah, this is what you literally waited. The thing
is I don't remember if there was a flashing anything when it got to error. Error right off the bat. How do you load an application? Yeah. Oh, memory full error. Uhoh. H I'd say hold for a second
and we're going to figure out how to load a program onto the Apple 2 from the cassette player. So I just open up this box and it looks like there's a copy of Apple Bull here and it has the little basic load thing. So maybe we can try this. I'm going to try. It says start the tape recorder before hitting the return key. Okay. Two beeps and a thing
indicate a good load. Okay. So let's error memory full message indicates bad tape or poor recorder performance. Okay. Let's take this tape out. We'll do reset.
How does this uh controlB control B return and then load but don't hit enter yet. I was going to say you could hit So hit play new to clear out memory for load. We just reset the whole thing. Reset resets the whole system. Good luck on that. Uhoh. Oh, it's doing things. Let's
rewind. Oh, but it's not loading. Yeah. Okay. So, reset. Control B.
Enter. And then L O A D. Yep. Hold on. So, hit start the cassette. Hit enter. Okay. Let's see if that works. That's
what we used to do. This is a memory. It was a twoerson twoerson job, but you would wait like it might say it takes 3 minutes or 5 minutes or whatever. uh all a sudden go beep beep error and then you had to start over again, clean the head or hope you didn't, you know. Yeah. Somebody had if they had cell phones, somebody turns on their cell phone. Yeah. See, memory full error. Okay.
Somebody turns on a cell phone, it's like and then all of a sudden your memory is gone. Okay. It beeped once at the beginning and then again at the end there. So, I'm going to stop it. Okay. Stop the cassette and type. Oh, but the U might not work. Oh, it does not work. R U. Come on. No, no, we just need a U. Yes, we do need syntax error. Well, so
we want to type ru n r u. Just hitting it in different spots. Dad is eating an apple. Working on the apple. Apple. This is a multi. It is April. Inspirational. It's April apples. Uh, but we found out the
instructions here. So, we're going to try doing list to see if it has the program in it right now. I just I might have reset it, though. List T. Oh, well. Oh, now there's a bunch of T's. I don't know if there's a way to backspace. That just goes back,
but it doesn't backspace. So, let's try Lis T. Yeah, there's two T's. Okay, so the T is probably Just try go to L I. Remember, this is very dumb stuff. No, you know, just hit back one. Just go back one and hit now. Hit enter. Syntax.
Okay. So, you missed one. See, it did list s T and leave the two there, but go back one click. And now hit enter. Oh, okay. Well, list and it's got nothing for you. So, what what you're thinking
is we can't run, but we can list and make sure it's actually loaded in. That's what I was thinking. So, let's do that. We'll call that success if we can get that and then maybe we'll do a follow-up video where we actually have a program running once we take out the keyboard. I was watching an Adrian's
digital basement video. He said that this keyboard is not fun to work on. Uh so that's not something that we can do in the next hour or two. Probably we
have to tear it down and get the keys out and clean it. Maybe do a 3D printed replacement if something's broken. Who knows? But let's try solder in two wires and you need it. So So I'm going to do was it CLR clears? Yeah. Okay. Clear and then load. But we're not going to load yet. Yeah. We're going to hit play and then
enter. Okay. And I'll see you in a minute. Probably 3 minutes. See you in 3 minutes. No, there's one beep. The one
beep I think is like starting load. Then the second beep is done. Oh, there we go. Okay. Now, so run does not work because the U the U is not working at all here. Right. But we're going to try list. L list. Yeah, you can do list with a one. Space one. Every
time Every time I press list, it always does two. So that's a back one. That's your debounce. Okay. Yeah, debounce. We're going to do something on that sometime. Return. Hey, there we go. Look
at that. Look at that. That program is in there. If you want to read the program, you can uh go back through all this video. And why is it beeping so
much? Maybe there's instructions in there for beeping. Oh my. Whoa. Whoa. Okay, we won. Is that That's how you actually played the bowling game. You just read the code and did it in your head. I'd say that
that's uh most of the successor getting data in and out. That's that's a that's a feat. Yeah. Well, data in, picture out at least. Yeah. But I I think the
coolest thing is the community has all these mods nowadays. Like this is the little that little pico. Yeah. Could you imagine if if you didn't have to deal I'm sure that you probably had a lot of times dealing with like graphics issues and displays car Yeah. cards and computers like this does look like a parallel bus but you know you got those old 386s and older computers and you were programming IRQs any card to get it to work. You had a bunch of things to make sure were right and then they started auto formatting them expecting certain things and but but it was painful but this was that card plugging in was plugandplay. It really was. Yeah.
I saw that there was a replacement keyboard now, but it's like 80 bucks or something. So, I think fixing that U key will be very But it's a $1,200 computer. So, yeah, with inflation that's like 50,000 bucks today. Oh, man. Maybe 60,000 tomorrow. So, if Uncle Mark were here today, what would you uh want to tell him about it? We're still doing all that crappy stuff, Mark, to get this thing to work. So, just stop. There goes
the tape. Anyway, we still have to do a lot of work to get this thing going. That is why it sat on the shelf for a few decades. 40 years. 40 years. Yeah, man. Happy Apple day something. Apple. Apple. April. April. April. April.
April. Apple. Apple.
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