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TUAW Retro Giveaway Part 2: Manuals, BASIC books and a printer
In the spirit of today's April Fool's/Apple birthday blasts from the past, we've got a giveaway prize pack that will remind us all of days gone by. [Yes, this is an actual giveaway, not a joke. -Ed.]Wrapping up our look at 33 years of Apple, we're giving away a few more computational artifacts:
Basic Apple BASIC, by James Coan, Fancy AppleSoft Programming by Gabriel Cuellar and 32 BASIC Programs for the Apple Computer by Rugg and Feldman for the old-school programmers out there. If you happen to have a machine to program Applesoft BASIC, why not try GEOS as well? It's an early GUI productivity suite for the Apple II series. We're giving away the entire package: manuals and disks (5.25" of course).
For you Mac folks, there's the ClarisWorks user's guide from 1989, some At Ease manuals and the MacProject II manual.
Finally, there's an Apple Color StyleWriter 2200 in great shape (but no warranty -- there are limits to AppleCare). We'll throw in some ink cartridges, but we've no idea if the ink still works.
- Open to legal US residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia and Canada (excluding Quebec) who are 18 and older.
- To enter leave a comment telling us the oldest Apple computer you've ever used.
- The comment must be left before April 5, 11:59PM Eastern Time.
- You may enter only once.
- One winner will be selected in a random drawing.
- Prize: One copy of Basic Apple BASIC, one copy of the 1989 ClarisWorks user guide, two At Ease manuals, one MacProject II manual, one copy of Fancy AppleSoft Programming, one copy of 32 BASIC Programs for the Apple Computer (no floppies or tapes included), an entire GEOS package (manuals and floppies) and an Apple ColorStyleWriter 2200 (no warranty, but we'll throw in some ink cartridges). (Total estimated value is $100)
- Click Here for complete Official Rules.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 7)
Mark said 11:09PM on 4-01-2009
The Apple IIe in my grade school class room. Now I own a Woz Edition of the IIGS in my living room.
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jeff said 12:46PM on 4-02-2009
the oldest aple i used was my friends original apple ii complete with cassette drive. we used to play apple invaders on it.
dnorris said 4:05PM on 4-02-2009
An Apple IIe in middle school. Harrells Christian Academy.
buoptip said 11:11PM on 4-01-2009
The oldest mac i've owned is not so old lol. The first one I used was the iMac in 2007.
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Josh said 11:13PM on 4-01-2009
I am young, so it was a friends G3 that drove me crazy! We tried using it for games.......it didnt work too well.
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reallycrazyguy said 11:13PM on 4-01-2009
Prepare to be disappointed with the CSW2200. I had to do a lot of printing with it, and it used up the print cartridges REALLY fast (cuz they are tiny, yet still expensive), and it was tough to get more than a couple of color pages to print out correctly at a time (without one of the colors failing to print reasonably well).
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kmcurrie said 11:20PM on 4-01-2009
I can't believe I actually owned an Apple 2+. Yes it has a WHOPPING 64k ram, two external disk drives (oh yea I was the popular kid) and a green monochrome monitor. I loved how the top would open exposing the massive empty space with a the brass colored power supply and a giant motherboard. Sigh, I loved that damn thing, even if I had to type "catalog" to get the list of apps on the disk.
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Michael said 11:22PM on 4-01-2009
Apple IIe, also in school. Have a Apple IIc in a box somewhere too, though, that was my first computer at home, think it was around 1987.
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Lungkisser said 11:24PM on 4-01-2009
That I've ever USED? One of the old Apple IIs in elementary school, I believe. Oldest I've owned is the first generation Intel Mini, core duo.
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jtbsdk said 11:25PM on 4-01-2009
More cool stuff. A lot of good products here.
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Matt said 11:29PM on 4-01-2009
An Apple IIe. Lots of classic Oregon Trail. :]
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Bastille Day said 11:28PM on 4-01-2009
Apple ][e, baby. Classic.
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actionbastard said 11:29PM on 4-01-2009
I wish I had saved all of the Apple software that I have worked with over the years that has passed into oblivion. I could put you guys to shame. Really.
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Jordan Kennedy said 11:47PM on 4-01-2009
This is so cool!!
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Scott said 11:29PM on 4-01-2009
My first Mac was my SE FDHC, but I just bought myself an Apple IIc in January! This software would be awesome!!!
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Sam said 11:29PM on 4-01-2009
Macintosh Classic
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Bones3D said 11:30PM on 4-01-2009
Not really interested in the give-away items, but this does bring back some memories. My oldest apple machine was an Apple II+, which was in service from 1986 to 1993, when I replaced it with one of the very first PowerPC macs, the 6100/60.
What would have made this giveaway great would've been a few pristine copies of old Apple II magazines like InCider or A+. Another find would be the original Apple Human Interface Guidelines by Jeff Raskin, back when a mac was a mac, before Mac OS X threw up on it.
Some other finds that might have worked... a complete package of the original Visicalc (an old spreadsheet app that basically gave credibility to personal computers being viable as business machines and was a huge factor in the Apple II's success), any of the very first Macintosh applications like MacDraw along side the hefty cardboard boxes they came in, a newton or an eMate (literally the earliest "netbook" I know of), and of course... one of the original Apple I kits! (Or $666 in cash...)
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Matt said 11:44PM on 4-01-2009
The computer I'm sitting at now... a vintage iMac circa 2007.
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william said 11:34PM on 4-01-2009
I used an Apple - just Apple - at computer store near the college campus, but I didn't get to really dig in until I convinced them to buy an Apple ][ at work. A few years later, I did the "test drive a Mac" and purchased an original Mac.
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Kepi said 11:36PM on 4-01-2009
Olded I've used is an Apple II (which I also happen to own)
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