{"id":1174,"date":"2015-11-23T15:19:06","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T20:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=1174"},"modified":"2015-12-02T09:56:24","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T14:56:24","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-laser-128-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1174\/retro-scan-of-the-week-laser-128-family","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> The Laser 128 Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/laser_128_family_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/laser_128_family_small.jpg\" alt=\"Laser 128 Apple II Compatible clone machine computer advertisement - 1987\" class=\"centered shadow\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>A family on the move<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This Apple II-clone machine became popular in the mid-late 1980s as a low-cost alternative to the Apple IIc (almost half the price <del datetime=\"2015-12-02T14:55:29+00:00\">but twice the RAM<\/del> &#8212; scratch that, Apple IIc had 128K too), especially for home use.  I have a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Laser_128\" target=\"_blank\">Laser 128<\/a> in nearly pristine condition in the box, and it feels nice to use.  It echoes the integrated form factor of the IIc, which makes it convenient to setup in a pinch if you need to pull out an Apple II in an emergency.  Or at least that&#8217;s how I use it.<\/p>\n<p><center><strong>Happy Thanksgiving from <em>VC&#038;G<\/em><\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From Family and Home Office Computing, November 1987, p.69 ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> Do you have any Thanksgiving computer or gaming traditions?  Tell us about them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A family on the move This Apple II-clone machine became popular in the mid-late 1980s as a low-cost alternative to the Apple IIc (almost half the price but twice the RAM &#8212; scratch that, Apple IIc had 128K too), especially for home use. I have a Laser 128 in nearly pristine condition in the box, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,21,27,26,10],"tags":[108,150,101,61,216,876,691,693,326,1290,1291,60,682],"class_list":["post-1174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-news-current-events","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-computers","tag-108","tag-advertisement","tag-apple","tag-apple-ii","tag-apple-iic","tag-clones","tag-family","tag-family-computing","tag-holidays","tag-laser","tag-laser-128","tag-retro-scan","tag-thanksgiving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}