Technology has come a long way since then, hasn’t it?
Who could have conceived of cellular phones with internet access in those days? Who would have conceived of the internet itself?
This whole thing seemed kind of bogus.
They were trying to talk to it. Serious? I mean I rarely see anyone ever try talking to SIRI or computers in 2014.
My first Apple was an Apple 2e. When the first Macs came along I had transitioned to PCs but now I have an iMac and a MacbookPro and I love them. I also have a PC because I have software that I have to run that is not supported by Apple. I know I can split my Apple. I tried that but its just easier to have two computers on my desk. Besides, it looks cool.
We had one in the office where I worked in about 1982? It was kept in a locked office, and we all (about 30 in the office) had to sign up for times to use it. LOTUS 1-2-3.
That was us. We had the Apple II Plus and it was awesome. Still fondly remember a lot of the games (like Castle Wolfenstein and Ultima). I learned basic programming on that thing.
Did Apple really use asymmetrical floppy disks?
My first computer was an Apple IIc. Amazing product at the time.
I have a friend that buys broken ones and restores them. It's almost entirely discrete logic chips, so if you can identify the malfunctioning chip with a logic analyzer, it can be replaced. Broken circuit boards are a bit harder to repair.
Would be funny if the kids weren’t so dang annoying!!
Curiously enough the Amiga was available at the same time, and it actually had a preemptive operating system that Microsoft and Apple to this day, envies.
My father in law still uses his old Apple IIe. And he still writes programs for it for his business.
The funniest thing I remember about them was what is termed now as garbage collection.
If you were creating, resizing or deleting arrays you had to be sure to run the garbage collector your you would run out of memory fast. Even re-assigning variable values used up space so you always had to reclaim it.
Mine just keep saying “Do ... you ... want ... to ... play ... a ... game?”
In fact, I still play some of the strategy games on my Galaxy S3 with an Apple //e emulator (Candy Apple).
-PJ