{"id":392,"date":"2007-11-15T18:30:14","date_gmt":"2007-11-15T23:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/392"},"modified":"2007-11-15T18:52:25","modified_gmt":"2007-11-15T23:52:25","slug":"an-apple-iie-in-every-kitchen-by-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/392\/an-apple-iie-in-every-kitchen-by-2008","title":{"rendered":"An Apple IIe in Every Kitchen by 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/kitchenapple_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/kitchenapple_small.jpg\" alt=\"An Apple IIe system in Benj's Kitchen\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last month I received the spiffy Apple IIe system you see above as part of a sizable donation to my computer collection (thanks Tom!).  This particular IIe configuration hails from a high school in Ohio where it was used primarily as an AppleWorks machine in the mid-late 1980s.  <\/p>\n<p>After carefully peeling away decades of nasty, nasty sticky dirt and grime from the hardware, I naturally set it all up on my kitchen table (hence the ceramic duck, a must in every modern kitchen). Instead of splitting up the set for parts, I decided that it would be fun to keep it all together and preserve it as it was used in the school.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/kitchenmouse_small.jpg\" alt=\"Benj's Apple IIe Kitchen Mouse\" class=\"alignright\" \/>Much to the mixed delight\/chagrin of my wife, I doodled on Deluxe Paint with the mouse and tried various games on disk every day for about three weeks while eating breakfast.  Alas, after about a month in the culinary limelight, the Kitchen IIe&#8217;s novelty has finally begun to wear thin.  It will soon move on to another table, but I plan to keep this &#8220;school system&#8221; together with all its original parts so it will remain a functional example of 1980s educational computing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month I received the spiffy Apple IIe system you see above as part of a sizable donation to my computer collection (thanks Tom!). This particular IIe configuration hails from a high school in Ohio where it was used primarily as an AppleWorks machine in the mid-late 1980s. After carefully peeling away decades of nasty, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,18,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-collecting","category-recent-finds","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","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=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}