Back in about 2019 i picked up several Apple items at a garage sale. Amongst them were a Green Monitor, a Duodisk Drive, and a Platinum IIe. The Duodisk needed a little work as it had become as one with a termite mound during its storage prior to the sale. It all ended happily, although the platinum IIe never looked quite right with the rest of the system.
I have since bought a second platinum IIe which came with a colour monitor. I typically don’t like having two of something (there are a few exceptions) so i resolved to swap out the original platinum IIe for a beige IIe. Impatience is expensive, and so is “mint”, so i waited until one came up in the right condition and price. Six years later ….
This was a FB marketplace purchase, although it turned out that the seller did frequent the ARC meetings in Adelaide.
The only real mis-step was the “1” key on the keyboard, which was not doing its thing. This was resolved by the already well-documented process of removing the key switch, disassembling, bending out the metal leaf a little, and then reassembling. Line filter caps were replaced.
I have set this machine up to be workman-like by including printer card, super serial card, 80 column card, and a Microsoft Softcard clone for CP/M. In this configuration, it is similar to the Lingo clone that i used back in the eighties.
This is an unenhanced IIe from around 1983.