>Less reliable
The iie is like 90% impossible to find custom chips, the ii+ uses regular TTL chips for all the logic and is much easier to repair
Retro PC general thread
Ryan Smith
Jace Turner
The II+ board has over 100 ICs on it, it's really big, fragile, and generates a lot of heat. Also it used tri-voltage 4116 DRAMs which tend to die from overheating. It's pretty rare for anything in a IIe to fail except sometimes the RAM because Apple used a lot of shitty Micron 4164 chips.
Angel Price
>Axe body spray
Lucas Peterson
Although that's not really a big deal unless you wanted to run late versions of AppleWorks or something. Since if you collected Apple II stuff, it would probably be to run games on, not reminisce about doing your term paper in a college dorm in 1986.
Wyatt Anderson
A lot of Apple IIs were used with Microsoft's CP/M card which added a Z80 and also included a specially modded version of MBASIC with graphics commands for the Apple II.
Jose Hughes
Hard Drive question for the thread:
I bought one of those IDE to SD card chips for an old Win95 machine but the BIOS is shitty at detecting it. Whats the cheapest IDE harddrive I can find? Most on ebay are like $20-30 bucks. Are certain sizes cheaper than others? I honestly dont need more than like 8GB tops
Jaxon Cook
Maybe look into XTIDE
Adam King
IDE to CF makes more sense
CF talks same proto after all
Lucas Green
>crystal clear YM2149 sound
>comfy slower gameplay (faster if 3D...sometimes)
>those F keys
I love the ST
Chase Kelly