“Steve Jobs IIe?”
I personally e-mailed the seller (more than three times) asking for more proof than what he was offering and received the same responses each time.
He keeps saying that he took it out of the garbage can at the curb. This whole thing is laughable.

Steven

Some good banter in this month’s episode.

Something random I learned from this ep is what an Oric is. And this story has roots.

If we go back, oh, 27 years, amongst the computer programmy books I had as a kid, there were two not-so-great ones which contained a few stories on a particular theme (EG Mystery, Sci-fi), stories which were interrupted by BASIC program listings. The idea is you would type in the listing, run the program and learn/see/decipher something relevant to that point in the story.

The reason these books never appealed to me is that they were non-interactive. The listings were super elementary and did things like draw ASCII art of the location, which you could pretty much see just by glancing at the listing itself. Or if they involved text, well, you could read the text without typing. And the programs didn’t change the outcome of the stories.

I still wish I could remember who published them (it definitely wasn’t Usborne) and exactly what they were called.

But… the upshot of all this is that on the front of these books, amongst the list of supported computers, there was something called the Oric. I assumed it was some British/European computer like other stuff I saw on the cover. The Electron, the Dragon… things I never heard of elsewhere.

So learning from Open Apple that the Oric is a Bulgarian Apple II clone joined the dots on something I remember from ages ago. That was neat.

What happened to the Apple Vintage Computing sub-category on eBay?

Comox: Listen to the show and find out!

(Sweet) 16 episode! :)

Something about Oric, widely spread in France, is that it wasn’t an Apple II clone per se: while they shared the processor, the OS was different.