Is there where we can talk about Apple II C+?

Oh that gave me a flashback, I owned one. My first computer while the rest of the people I know had "Commodores, Ataris , Sinclairs" .

I was the unicorn among in the gang. My parents paid an arm and a leg for it.

Some years later I traded it in for my first 128k Mac. I made a Fat Mac out of it by soldering 16 x 64k RAM chips for 1mb. Stacked 4 times for 4mb with seperate row select wires.

From my first money then I bought an Mac SE/30 and a thermo printer.

Good times.

We got one secondhand from my uncle when I was a kid. Between defaulting to 4 MHz and having a 3.5 inch drive built in, the thing made almost no sense. I had been using IIe and IIgs systems in school. Having to hit Esc at the right time while rebooting (so you'd see "Normal" on the screen and boot into 1 MHz mode) was super annoying but necessary to play any of the games we had at all. You absolutely also need an external 5.25 inch drive to use it, which kind of goes against its attempt at a compact form factor.

The regular IIc made a lot more sense.