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[skab]

Reminds me of this one:



One of the most impressive demos ever.

4K, and I'm not talking about resolution. Mind-boggling.

[Rhythm]

[Thoughtcat]

[Orava]

Commodore was stupidly expensive especially with the disk drive. only the posh boys had one.

[Orava]

£200 in the early 80s was a lot of money and about the same again for the 1541 disc drive.

[F-ZeroOne]

Mind you, compared to $2000 + for an Apple II it probably seemed like a bargain...

[bloid]

Awww the Dragon 32

Be still my aching heart

[Dio]

Mind you, compared to $2000 + for an Apple II it probably seemed like a bargain...

That's the really baffling thing. The Apple II is a proper pile of old rubbish and so expensive, but outsold everything else in the US. I'm badly missing something there as to understanding why. At least by Mac time you could say their GUI software was better than the rest.

[Orava]

Our high-school computer lab was 100% Apple, as it had the same kind of processor as C64 (MOS 6502 vs 6510) I used to baffle the IT teacher with some ASM code to do things that "are not possible". Bless him Basic was all he knew.

[Rhythm]

Mind you, compared to $2000 + for an Apple II it probably seemed like a bargain... :)

That's the really baffling thing. The Apple II is a proper pile of old rubbish and so expensive, but outsold everything else in the US. I'm badly missing something there as to understanding why. At least by Mac time you could say their GUI software was better than the rest.

School and corporate contracts plus a relative lack of competition within the US for such machines? I know the Apple II is the machine I hear most US folks my age used in the classroom - where we were getting taken to the computer lab to use BBCs and Acorn Electrons, they were all using Apple IIs

[skab]

Over here in Germany we had all Apple IIs in the school computer lab. Those were the only Apple II machines I've ever seen until and since then.

[F-ZeroOne]

I'm guessing Apple kind of had the field largely to themselves (they obviously had competitors, but it usually takes significant resources to overcome the established product) until the IBM PC came along. It probably helped that VisiCalc was on Apple and not, say, a TI-99/4A. Er, just to keep thread on-topic:

[ThetaReactor]

Can confirm that school was all Apple IIs until these guys showed up:

[SuperMappy]

Good Idea!

[Thoughtcat]

Someone posted this on Twitter from an old copy of Look-In. I'd like to think David Carr is on this forum somewhere.