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TUAW Retro Giveaway Part 2: Manuals, BASIC books and a printer

by Victor Agreda, Jr. Apr 1st 2009 at 11:02PM

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)
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jtbsdk

iMac G3, still going strong today. It's 9 years old. I also have a Color StyleWriter 1500 that I still use.

April 05 2009 at 11:13 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
froggotheman

I have used and still own a couple of functioning Apple II+ and IIe with working disk drives. I even have some old copies of games like Akalabeth.

April 05 2009 at 12:24 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dave from Canada

The oldest Apple computer I used was an Apple ][+ somewhere around 1981 when I was four years old. It was a summer computer camp at my local college and we were playing around with BASIC and Logo. :-)

April 04 2009 at 8:42 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
austin.federa

Enter! This is so awesome, Im such a fan of retro manuals

April 04 2009 at 9:01 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
RLP

The original 128K Mac. I even voided the warranty and replaced the memory chips to get it up to 512K of memory.

April 04 2009 at 1:06 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
jakob

I still use my Newton from time to time. Not quite an iphone but has some nice and innovative features.

April 03 2009 at 2:58 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
paxswill

The Mac IIci my dad gave me as my first computer, back in kindergarten. It was also the first computer I opened up, in 3rd grade to add a NuBus ethernet card. Had an external SCSI CD-ROM with a caddy and everything. Wish I still had it though...

April 03 2009 at 1:50 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Kerry

Apple ][+, baybeeee!!!!

(And I've got my Apple //e and two Disk ]['s holding up my Newton MP2100...)

April 03 2009 at 12:14 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
jwkpiano1

The oldest Mac I have ever owned is actually not particularly old. It was a 1st Gen MacBook Pro, 15" 2.16 GHz, 1 GB RAM (upgraded to 2GB), matte display.

April 03 2009 at 11:01 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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jwkpiano1

Oops, it appears I read the prompt wrong. The oldest Macs I used were Apple IIlces in elementary school. Those were great machines.

April 03 2009 at 11:03 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
a4nguy

An Apple II+... which I still have to this day.

April 03 2009 at 10:17 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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