10-06-2011, 07:57 PM
Hi everyone,
My family's first Apple was an Apple II+ purchased in 1978. We upgraded it with a 16K card and a Videx Enhancer and a modem. I believe it ended up with a total of 48K. We used a cassette deck with it for data and, eventually, disk drives. Two 5-1/4" drives to be exact. One for a system disk and one for an app disk. Or, one for a system/app disk and a data disk. And, an Epson dot matrix printer for it.
We used that Apple II+ for everything! Programming in Basic, word processing, games and even telecommunications. Bulletin Board Systems (aka BBS) ruled back then! Applewrite, Superscribe, DiskMuncher and Locksmith (for backing up original disks) and more games than I can list became family favorites. Wizardry from Sir Tech Software comes to mind.
Then Apple released the original Mac.
We had one of the first. My mom had gone back to school and got it at educational pricing along with a batch of software. The old Epson printer was replaced by an original Imagewriter and we had an external 3.5" drive for it. The rest is history.
Robert
My family's first Apple was an Apple II+ purchased in 1978. We upgraded it with a 16K card and a Videx Enhancer and a modem. I believe it ended up with a total of 48K. We used a cassette deck with it for data and, eventually, disk drives. Two 5-1/4" drives to be exact. One for a system disk and one for an app disk. Or, one for a system/app disk and a data disk. And, an Epson dot matrix printer for it.
We used that Apple II+ for everything! Programming in Basic, word processing, games and even telecommunications. Bulletin Board Systems (aka BBS) ruled back then! Applewrite, Superscribe, DiskMuncher and Locksmith (for backing up original disks) and more games than I can list became family favorites. Wizardry from Sir Tech Software comes to mind.
Then Apple released the original Mac.
We had one of the first. My mom had gone back to school and got it at educational pricing along with a batch of software. The old Epson printer was replaced by an original Imagewriter and we had an external 3.5" drive for it. The rest is history.
Robert