Greetings:
I am seeking an Apple IIc, preferably with the 3.5 drive. Need it in excellent working order and in as good condition as possible. If you have one to sell please drop me a PM. Also prefer to find one locally in Kansas City area. Please note that I DO NOT want to buy this on eBay.
Thanks,
Mike
Just wanted to let everyone know that I found my machine. Thanks for responses.
Just curious: why do you want one, as opposed to say using Virtual ][ on your Mac?
He might be one of us that prefers working with real hardware instead of 'imitating' it.
benieve me - there is a difference between real hardware and a simulation ! what do you believe gives you the better kick: riding a ´68 stingray in a simulation on a pc or driving the real ´68 stingray on a highway along the coast in california in springtime ??? If you think its the pc - you should first try the real thing before you answer....
Speedy,
Amen.
Yeah: I was curious as to the specific need that nitromike needed and asked him such...
I appreciate your generic feelings about simulation vs. realsteel, however, I am still interested in what nitromike has to say (if he ever comes back to this forum).
FWIW: I recently had to determine the amount of a home remodel that took place from 1983 to 1985, all of which I had previously entered into Home Accountant by Continental Software on my Apple //c.
I used the occasion to convert ALL of my 5-1/4" floppies of home finance date from 1981 on to disk image files on my Mac Mini.
I then found it easier to use Virtual ][ running Home Accountant to "print to text file" reports from each year (and each sub-year, since my number of annual transactions required more than one data disk), and saved these text files on my Mac.
I then imported the text files into Microsoft Excel one by one, "massaged" them a bit to be sure that the proper columns lined up, deleted the extraneous report headers, and then was easily able to make a complete itemization report of all home remodel expenses, including the total, and forwarded them to my accountant.
YES: I could have done it all on the Apple //c, but not as easily, nor with the final result being as easily utilized by my professional support staff.
of course i agree that for special purposes it rather often makes sense to use conversions or converted software - but in general these cases are all brought up to one of the two points that we a had to struggle along with:
restriction to access of useable printing or printers - or use of larger databases that make expanded use to floppymedia...
in the first case the problem is well known to anybody involved with similar problems: the ability to run old printers and the availiable stuff ( for example the problem to get endless-paper or printing ribbons - not to argue on time and noise ... ) - so printing converted data with a modern laserjet of course is an alternative that overcomes a lot of old-fashioned-printing-problems espacially because to most of the common now-a-days printers there are no drivers availiable at the apple II series ( laserprinters cost in those days more than the first born child ).... so that makes much sense to work with emulation...
and the second point is also determined to old-fashioned-restrictions:
operating a database with large amount of data and the data spread over a larger amount of disks....
in that case it also make a lot of sense to get the data transfered to modern pc and converted to a program on a modern pc... sorting large tables of data that is continued in spread over 2 or 3 floppies is disencouraging and boring.... same stuff done on a modern pc saves huge amounts of time - and the other advantage is the ability to store and archive the data on modern media like CD or DVD....
in such cases i just even would go straight to the advice to convert and use the coverted data on modern pc... every other kind of attempt just would turn out to be a time-killer....
but i keep up the use of conversions restricted to this few occasions and the very last point is to archive large amounts of data ( floppy-archives and scans from manuals ) to get them rescued to optical storage media- its just a well known problem that old harddisks will die someday and floppydisks are also not equiped with eternal life....