The LGR Apple II Collection + Testing an Apple //e!

I've been moving and that means getting stuff outta storage and bringing it to the new house. Which inspired this quickly-made video! This is the first time I've had all of my Apple 2 machines out at the same time and I ended up getting excited enough to whip out the camera and begin talking about them. Then a new-to-me Apple IIe system showed in the mail and I got extra excited about that too, so I figured why not tack on an unboxing and test of that lovely system to the latter half of this video while I'm at it! Magic smoke included as a free bonus.

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00:00 Intro to the Collection
02:16 The Original Apple II
04:29 The Apple II Plus
08:00 Apple IIe Enhanced
10:23 Apple IIc
12:28 Apple IIGS
16:00 Unboxing an Apple IIe
20:07 Unboxing a Monitor III
21:58 Testing the IIe and Monitor
24:21 Apple Writer II
26:38 Diagnostics Testing
29:43 The Oregon Trail
32:17 RIFA Madness
34:29 Outroduction

#LGR #Retro #Computers

[hotelmario]

I love how LGR still has the same immensely likeable presentation style after all these years. Always chortling to himself. These videos are always really pleasant to watch even just as background noise.

[nnthayer]

Want to call out that excellent and proper packing job for the Monitor /// at 20:29. As someone that's seen his fair share of old computer stuff damaged from indifferent sellers (including a Monitor /// that was simply popped into a box with no padding of any kind), I gotta say *that* was gratifying to see.

[adriansdigitalbasement]

I found an old cloner in a box of random old junk. I'll make a copy of myself and mail it to you. :-)

[jstinn]

LGR is moving, a hectic thing moving, and he still manages to give his fans some interesting content. Thanks LGR!

[g.u.]

Naming the chapter “RIFA madness” was an excellent touch. I giggled way more at that than I should’ve.

[RubyRoks]

I really appreciate this interim "Blerbs but higher quality" format. It feels like a bit of a throwback to the older times before production quality got more focused

[mykeljmoney]

“It’s just kind of filler content.”

I thought, “damn, it’s just riffing so it’s probably short.” I was very pleasantly surprised to see 36:26! Now that’s what I’m talking about! LGR riffing is always enjoyable and informative! And yes, when I see there’s a new LGR video I click it asap. I don’t waste time checking out things like length or topic. Come on! It’s LG-frickin’-R!

[stampedetrail]

I found a whole pallet of IIe platinums at the dump about 20 years ago, took em home and made one really nice IIe platinum. Then proceeded to make a CAD program, word processor, fractal generator, quiz game, kind of re-runs from my high school days really. I called it "Appleatia" and still have it scanned for emulators. Fun stuff, these were really primitive computers but the included software, really made it an excellent platform for learning the basics of coding and math.

[brentboswell]

8:49 That's most likely the Apple Extended 80 Column Card, which gave the machine 80 column display capabilities and 64k extra RAM (bank switched, as the 6502 could only address 64k of memory at a time). It also enables double high resolution graphics, 512x192 in 16 colors 😊 The other options from Apple for the Enhanced slot were the Apple 80 column card (no RAM other than a doubling of the video RAM), and the RGB Extended 80 column Card, for the ultra rare Apple RGB display (several of which were rescued from outdoor storage at Computer Reset).

[andrewd.harris]

We used those in middle school when they had long been ancient. The Navy dumped a lot of old tech off on the school I went to in late middle school. It was called Northeast Middle School, and my class was the first class to start and finish at the new building they'd built for it. I was in a gifted class, and I had to write my first novel on the Apple IIe. I got in trouble for it because it was violent and didn't get to go to D.C. with the rest of the class when Bill Clinton was President. Didn't miss out on much. I did make the President's list though that year and got a letter from Clinton. Also learned some BASIC on the IIe back then. They had some really cool RPG's for it. Games like oregon trail are easy to make in BASIC.

[deepspacetech]

Hi Clint. Long time listener, first time caller. Your videos always trigger a pleasant dive into nostalgia...Computer classes with Word Muncher and Oregon Trail. Attending local yard sales buying random computer equipment, convinced some combination of which would lead to a time machine. Getting actual floppy disks as a present on Christmas morning (including Corncob and Wolfenstein 3D). Thank you for your videos. Hope the rest of your move goes well!

[TopHatJackStudios]

[Laughs in capacitor death] LGR's captions are always gold.

[djcsdy]

Bear in mind that on a monochrome monitor, the "composite" video output is exactly equivalent to just the luma part of a component video output. So you would expect it to be very sharp. The monitor won't include any hardware to strip out the colour band of component video (too expensive!), but will instead ignore the colour burst and treat the colour band as the higher frequency part of the luma signal. Thus on a monochrome monitor you get back the horizontal sharpness that you would have lost to the colour band on a composite colour monitor. Since the Apple II's display hardware is really monochrome internally, and relies on NTSC artifacting to produce colour, everything works out perfectly!

[brandonbert]

LGR: "I'm itching to do another setup video..." Proceeds to do a setup video. The legend delivers again. =)

[Skelig]

The amber Alps in the Apple IIc are absolutely beautiful to type on, easily the best keyboard in Apple's collection.

[kazinwho]

"Uh oh - shit!" the most common spoken phrase for retro tech enthusiasts lol

[Markimark]

The Apple II plus was the very first computer I ever used in elementary school, we also had Apple IIe in our school library. Played lots of typing games and these computers were used throughout the 1980s until our school upgrade to the Macintosh in the late 80s!

[KzintiCV]

The Apple 2e was my first computer ever. Even today the sound of it running hits me with a nostalgia nothing else can touch.

[stockicide]

It's refreshing to see Apple products that were designed to be easy to open up and repair / upgrade.

[orbitalgolem]

Fantastic. I still have my ][ Plus from 1982, and my IIGS from 1986. Picked up a //e Platinum years ago to shore up the collection - basically new and stored in a school closet for years. Learned about obsolescence early on when my folks got me the ][ Plus in Dec '82 and Apple introduced the //e the next month.