An Apple ][ for the 21st CenturyIt 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.
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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.
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An Apple ][ for the 21st Century
