A brief encounter with an Apple IIc Plus and a 5½" monochrome monitor.

2009-11-20 fri 08:50z

Picked up this little 12V b&w tv set at a junk store, because it has an NTSC input (unlike the several others there). I thought it would make a cute monitor for the old computers.

The Apple IIc+—requiring nothing more than power and video cords—was the prime candidate for the guinea pig.

I should have demonstrated a lot of other things (its unique ability to hot engage/disengage the 80-column firmware, without disturbing the contents of the screen, or even a line edit in progress). But i just did this little quickie, with the head scratch about it having the running-man character pair, instead of the inverse carriage return, and title-bar texture characters that replaced it in the latter version of MouseText on the IIgs and later Enhanced IIe's (both earlier machines).

[Sorry about the wind noise; i didn't think to kill my fan.]

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Science & Technology

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• 8-bit
• vintage
• computer
• Apple
• II
• Apple2