/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5745315
bit rot

Sounds like something on the card went bad. You can either find a replacement, or fix it.

Uh...you didn't plug the disk cable in backwards did you? Because that's a mistake people have been making with the things since 1978.

>>5745315
>he forgot that if you power up an Apple II with no disk in the drive, that always happens and you have to press Ctrl+Reset to go into BASIC

>>5745337
well shit I am a dumbass...

Thank you for that! It has been so long since I used this machine I totally forgot. I could have sworn it just automatically went into Basic if there was no disk detected...

Thanks Anons!

TRS-80s do the same thing. They sit there with a "Diskette?" prompt until you either put one in and hit Reset or hit Ctrl+Reset to go to BASIC. Though it's still more user friendly than the Apple II and doesn't behave like the thing is broken.

>>5745337
Came here to post this. I love how it's literally 99% of the cause of this.

>>5745360
You can pick up both TRS-80's and Apple II's for real cheap sometimes because they are listed as "faulty" because of that.

>>5745386
Nah TRS-80s on Ebay always sell for absurd prices because they're heavy and not easy to ship.

>>5745360
The Model 3/4 do that, the Model 1 would just display garbage characters.

In the early days a lot of people would end up nuking an IC on the Disk II controller by inserting the cable upside down because it has a power line in it and it wasn't keyed. This caused a lot of repairs and angry customers, which led to Apple issuing stern reminders about attaching the disk cable correctly.

I dimly recall one guy on VCFED who bought an apparently broken Model 3 on Ebay because there was no picture on power up. Turned out the brightness and contrast were just turned all the way down.

>>5745390
>eBay
Why would you do that to yourself?

Commodore PETs are not cheap either for same reason.

>>5745424
Got like 3 PETs, well CMBs, two being 8032's. Never paid more than 10 yuros for any of them. Probably paid several times more in gas for picking them up than the computers themselves costed.

OP here... I picked up this Apple IIE on craigslist a couple years back... Some woman was selling it from her fathers estate. Got the entire setup for $50.

He was the original owner, and apparently was actively using it from 1985 up to around 2002!
Included several dozen disks that have dates written on them. He used it for tracking his business expenses etc.

>>5745429
That's some real boomershit right there.

>>5745404
And the other guy who "liberated" a PET from a garbage dump. It worked except the keyboard, which turned out to have a PCB that was cracked in half for some reason.

>>5745439
Based on my experience Apple II and TRS-80 owners were often boomers/tech novices who bought a computer to type letters and figure out their monthly bills with while the people who had C64s and Ataris were more often neckbeards who were into programming.

>>5745449
Scripsit was for a long time just about the only viable home computer word processor. Stuff like WordStar was expensive and only enterprise customers bought it.

Apple IIs are generally reliable machines though sometimes the RAM goes bad because Apple used a lot of shitty Micron RAM chips.

>>5745320
you obviously have zero idea what you are talking about, in the future do not spout random nonsense memes, you will look far less stupid that way.

ITT: Baka Western retro PCs

>>5745595
Lol, poser.

>>5745360
I think on the TRS-80 it was you just press any key to boot after inserting a system disk. The manuals always told you to not power on or off with a disk in the drive because of the risk of corrupting it from a power spike which was sometimes a problem with floppy drives in the early days.

>>5745595
>mmmuh weeb dating sim/hentai boxes

>>5745315
Now go boot up some Lode Runner for us.

>>5745641