Happy 30th!…

by John on June 5, 2007 · View Comments

in Apple,Posts

Time goes by so quickly…

Today is the 30th Birthday of the Apple II computer:

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Along with the old Commodore Pet and the TRS-80, the Apple II was one of the pillars of the early personal computer industry. It’s scary to think I went out and bought an Apple II when it first came out – and that it was an upgrade to my MITS Altair that I built myself from a kit.

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Loading programs off of cassette tape and having a real monitor was an unimaginable upgrade from toggling programs in to memory via the front panel then watching the flashing LED’s.

Kind of puts everything in perspective…

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