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Apple IIe for sale on eBay. UK seller

Frogger said:
Hi there,

I have found an apple IIe for sale on eBay, it looks in decent condition, but is it valued correctly? :p

I suppose it really depends upon how desperate you are to get hold of one.
It does come with all the extras, 2 drives, monitor, floppies etc.
They are cheaper in the States but the postage brings the price up.
I doubt if this one will sell. £50-£80 max would seem a more sensible starting
price. Trouble with the IIE is it uses programmable devices which I doubt can
be found now. At least my clone does. The II however can always be repaired.
Vintage machines can never be fully relied on due to their age. I personally
wouldn't touch anything that I couldn't still get the bits for.
Make him an offer if you are interested. !!!!!!.
Regards
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I'm not exactly sure of the value of the Pound these days, but that would be around $150 plus shipping if a North Amercan bought it. It does however have floppy drives, a monitor and printer plus original software. The A-II was not as readily available in GB as here, so perhaps it's a very good deal there. It was hard for me to discern the condition of it from the photos offerred, nor of the model. The model is also important. Was it the one with the raised logo, or an optimised Platinum model ? You can't see that from the given pics.

Lawrence
 
The Platinum has a keypad on the right side of the keyboard and was usually grey. I really enjoyed the platinum although last time a friend powered it on it made a bunch of weird clicking on the floppy drive and didn't power on. I was a bit pissed at him but I'm guessing the cable wasn't in all the way or something and haven't made time to look at it.
 
Druid6900 said:
scommstech,

Does your clone board use a couple of STK 40 pin chips in its design?
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Hi It has at least one........STK6537 at location B/C-4 (70E5 check sum)
(if the lettering locations are the same as a real apple ).
Board lettering A-F, 1-11, F at the front A at the rear. 1 nearest F PSU side.
Another 40 pin chip. Makers label covers chip ID but label has 106729 on it.
Thats at E/F-6
This board has a PAL 16Rbnc at location E1. Sort of puts me off as all other
chips are probably replaceable but if this goes the boards dead.
It uses a 6502A, AY-5-3600, 4 Eproms-and has one bank of 7164. It
has a DM74ls154 and a handful of LS chips. It has got solder pads on it so
presumable it was meant for any market
Never seen a genuine IIE so have no idea what the differences are....
Hope this helps
 
scommstech said:
Hi It has at least one........STK6537 at location B/C-4 (70E5 check sum)
(if the lettering locations are the same as a real apple ).
Board lettering A-F, 1-11, F at the front A at the rear. 1 nearest F PSU side.
Another 40 pin chip. Makers label covers chip ID but label has 106729 on it.
Thats at E/F-6
This board has a PAL 16Rbnc at location E1. Sort of puts me off as all other
chips are probably replaceable but if this goes the boards dead.
It uses a 6502A, AY-5-3600, 4 Eproms-and has one bank of 7164. It
has a DM74ls154 and a handful of LS chips. It has got solder pads on it so
presumable it was meant for any market
Never seen a genuine IIE so have no idea what the differences are....
Hope this helps
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That's actually a STK65371.
The one at E/F 6 is an STK65301
The PAL on mine is a 16R8ACN
The keyboard chip, on this one at E/F 10 is a KB3600PRO, but, it sounds like the same board.
Information on it, all I've found anyway, is limited to a description of the board itself. The STK chips have eluded me, so far (unless I want 100 qty), so, it still doesn't work.

The Apple //e is complately different in the chips it uses and the layout.
 
Druid6900 said:
That's actually a STK65371.
The one at E/F 6 is an STK65301
The PAL on mine is a 16R8ACN
The keyboard chip, on this one at E/F 10 is a KB3600PRO, but, it sounds like the same board.
Information on it, all I've found anyway, is limited to a description of the board itself. The STK chips have eluded me, so far (unless I want 100 qty), so, it still doesn't work.

The Apple //e is complately different in the chips it uses and the layout.
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Availability of parts is always a problem with vintage stuff, especially clones.
Have you managed to "decode" the Pal chip. I tried out of interest, but gave
up. If my IIE fails I doubt if I will try to repair it. Cheaper to get a real IIE
motherboard.
I have never had cause to investigate the STK chips. What do they do.
I'm afraid Ive only worked on the Apple IIs, and IBM XTs.
Once all the upgrades started IIE. IIG, Lisa, AT etc I lost interest. Much
prefer the basic models, more maintainable, and you can get into the circuits..
hope you find the bits you need.
 
No, actually, I haven't done anything with it in quite some time as I have a lot of other things to work on.

It, and an actual Apple //e board just happened to be sitting in the same room as the computer I'm using.

I think one chip is memory management and I forget what the other one turn out to be for.

I'll drop the PAL in my chip tester and see if it comes up as anything.
 
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