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I had friends whose family bought Apple II's when it came out. What a marvel that machine was at the time especially some decent games like the original Castle Wolfenstein. The floppy disk was a big improvement over cassette tapes used by PET computers at school.
1 posted on 05/29/2014 6:45:54 AM PDT by C19fan
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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?


2 posted on 05/29/2014 6:48:31 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego (et)
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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.


3 posted on 05/29/2014 6:49:06 AM PDT by MNDude
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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.


4 posted on 05/29/2014 6:51:24 AM PDT by Mercat
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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.


5 posted on 05/29/2014 6:52:12 AM PDT by NEMDF
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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.


6 posted on 05/29/2014 6:52:45 AM PDT by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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floppy disk drive for 3.5-by-5-inch media

Did Apple really use asymmetrical floppy disks?

7 posted on 05/29/2014 6:53:22 AM PDT by MortMan (Avoid temporary variables and strange women.)
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My first computer was an Apple IIc. Amazing product at the time.


10 posted on 05/29/2014 6:59:55 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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A working Apple II is worth a lot of money, as in >$50,000.

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.

14 posted on 05/29/2014 7:10:26 AM PDT by justlurking (tagline removed, as demanded by Admin Moderator)
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Would be funny if the kids weren’t so dang annoying!!


15 posted on 05/29/2014 7:11:34 AM PDT by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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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.


19 posted on 05/29/2014 7:25:49 AM PDT by RideForever
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My father in law still uses his old Apple IIe. And he still writes programs for it for his business.


22 posted on 05/29/2014 7:42:07 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Only Liberals can look at an amendment that says "shall not be infringed" and see blank parchment.)
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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.


25 posted on 05/29/2014 7:48:45 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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Mine just keep saying “Do ... you ... want ... to ... play ... a ... game?”


30 posted on 05/29/2014 11:11:29 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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I still have my Apple //e.

In fact, I still play some of the strategy games on my Galaxy S3 with an Apple //e emulator (Candy Apple).

-PJ

32 posted on 05/29/2014 11:23:04 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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