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Title: An Apple ][ for the 21st Century Post by: HCK on October 11, 2016, 04:05:21 pm An Apple ][ for the 21st Century
It was the computer that generations grew up with. It was the de facto choice for education. Arguably, it started the PC revolution. It was the Apple ][. Michael Gartenberg has covered the personal technology beat for more than two decades at places like Gartner, Jupiter Research and Altimeter Group. Most recently, he spent a few years at Apple as Sr. Director of Worldwide Product Marketing. */ /*-->*/ /*-->*/ The Apple ][ and it's descendants, the ][+, ][e, ][c and, ][gs), through educational software and the bundled AppleSoft programming language, taught many of us what a computer was and how it could benefit us. It wasn't a computing appliance. You had to put it together, even open up the lid to do things such as add circuit boards — or cards, as they were called — for printing, connecting to a monitor, or upgrading memory. It was a magic box that, in the right hands, could do anything. And many of those "right hands" were the hands of students. I don't lame... Source: An Apple ][ for the 21st Century (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheIphoneBlog/~3/mdNK4RmwwfU/apple-21st-century) |