Apple through the ages

[ol' boy]

This has brought back some memories!
A lot of my later year school work and trade school work was done on the first Mac.

[johnwinger]

I remember using the apple IIe at school.

[ol' boy]

Same johnwinger, my Grandfather bought me an Apple IIe clone... Had those big square external floppy drives
You could just lift the top of it, no screws, the cover was that heavy, it just sat there.
You could spend $1150 on these VGA colour cards for them, hilarious.

Looked like this:



Used to play Broderbund "Lode Runner" hour after hour

[william10]

My Apple IIe had 128k of memory you and I had to keep swapping 5 1/4 floopy disks. I thought it was great at the time.

[altrouge]

Wow, to think that Apple's products would look as fancy as it is now.. Wish I came across these old models before, I actually like the look of the wooden one.

[lsemmens]

The IIe was on my shortlist of computers when I was looking to purchase my first. I ended up with a DOS box with 256Kb RAM and twin 360K floppies with a cga video although I purchased an amber monitor thinking that colour was just a gimmick. Cost me 2 and a half grand! What could you build for that money now?

[ol' boy]

Cost me 2 and a half grand! What could you build for that money now?

You were saying


So what would a 2Tb be worth back then at that exchange rate???

[Mgoldbe1]

I did spend alot of time playing Wavy Navy on an orange screen also.....

[lsemmens]

Hard disks were for the rich back then. I was still using my box to write dBase code that I had no hope of ever running on my machine because it did not have the storage space. In fact, when I moved to Clipper, I had to set a compile to run over night, then take it into work the next day to ensure it worked!