What a blast from the past.
A Fordham University professor shocked himself – and others – when he discovered his decades-old Apple IIe computer is still in good working order.
Oh.
My.
God.
An Apple IIe. Sat in my parents’ attic for years. Decades.
And it works.
Put in an old game disk. Asks if I want to restore a saved game.
And finds one!
It must be 30 years old.
I’m 10 years old again. pic.twitter.com/zL7wWxOo36
— John Pfaff (@JohnFPfaff) February 17, 2019
Law professor John Pfaff posted on Twitter about the unearthing of the third model in the Apple II series, which was released in 1983, noting it has been sitting in his parents’ attic for years.
“Oh. My. God.,” Pfaff tweeted over the weekend. “An Apple IIe. Sat in my parents’ attic for years. Decades. And it works. Put in an old game disk. Asks if I want to restore a saved game. And finds one! It must be 30 years old. I’m 10 years old again.”
Pfaff then showed off the saved game of “Adventureland” on the screen, which asked him, “What shall I do?”
“This is tricky, because three decades later I can’t quite remember where I left off this round of Adventureland,” Pfaff tweeted.
Pfaff went on to show off the old floppy disk games he had, including Millionware, Olympic Decathlon, and Neuromancer.
“This game… never got past the first level despite HOURS of (pre-internet cheating) trying,” Pfaff tweeted of Neuromancer. “Now w the web, I have a shot. The music, tho. That classic Apple IIe music.”
In addition to old computer games, Pfaff even found a letter his late dad typed to him in 1986.
“Just found this letter my dad typed to me in 1986, when I was 11 and at summer camp,” Pfaff tweeted. “I REALLY WONDER what my theory abt the daily newspaper comics Spider-Man was. My dad passed away almost exactly a year ago. It’s amazing to come across something so ‘ordinary” from him.”
Pfaff’s reminiscent tweets quickly went viral.
“I’m so happy that this thread seems to have brought back so many good memories for so many ppl. That’s not how my TL usually is, and it’s been a fantastic chance of pace,” Pfaff wrote.
