Amaya Toman The topic of most websites writing about Apple is mostly news. From time to time, however, there is talk of older equipment - mostly in connection with auctions or unusual finds. This is also the case of New York law professor John Pfaff, who found a fully functional Apple IIe computer in his parents' house by sheer chance. On his Twitter account, which quickly became the target of a number of Apple enthusiasts, he shared his impressions and a series of related photos.
In the first of his series of tweets, Pfaff describes how he unexpectedly found a perfectly working machine in the attic of his parents' house. According to Pfaff, the Apple IIe lay there unnoticed for decades, and Pfaff convinced himself of its functionality by accidentally turning it on. After inserting an old game disk into the computer, the old Apple IIe asked Pfaff if he wanted to restore one of the older games saved—it was the Adventureland text book from 1978. “He found one! She must be about 30 years old. I'm ten again," Pfaff confided enthusiastically on his Twitter.
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In other tweets, he willingly shared other finds with the world, such as papers he wrote during his senior year of high school. However, due to the absence of the AppleWorks program, he was unable to open them on the computer. Pfaff compared working on the Apple IIe after so many years to riding a bicycle, which is simply not forgotten. Pfaff's tweets even earned a response from the writer William Gibson, author of the cult Neuromancer - you can find Pfaff's tweets and relevant reactions in the photo gallery accompanying this article. "My kids thought it was retro when I played Super Mario with my wife (…)," Pfaff writes. "Tomorrow morning, their definition of retro will change significantly," he adds.
The Apple IIe computer was released in 1983 as the third model of the Apple II series. The letter "e" in the name stands for "enhanced" and refers to the fact that the Apple IIe already had a number of features by default that were not a given in earlier models. With occasional minor changes, it was produced and sold for almost eleven years.
Source: Cult of Mac
And nowadays some macbooks don't even last three years :-(
Thanks to the T2 chip, it will end up in the trash, because the repair will be too expensive.