lowendmac.com — The Apple I. I'm sure it's hard for most diggers to imagine the world pre-internet, let alone pre GUI, or even further "pre-PC." Apple was there & this was the beginning. This ad is about as old as I am- but having grown up on Apple II's & DOS, I can tell you: We've come a long, long way. Here's to "thinking different!" (may need to enlarge image)
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spinchangeJul 28, 2007Submitter
this beast, but on a ass-ton of steroids and compacted
ragonamuffinJul 28, 2007
Try 5 years.
korethJul 29, 2007
As someone who has been around computers since the era of that ad, I call bulls**t on that argument, though you're not the first to make it. What we do with our computers today is "the same" as what we did with those old boxes only in the most superficial ways.In the 1970s, there was no Web. Hell, when the Apple 1 came out, you'd have been hard pressed to even find a *modem* to hook up to the thing. There were no word processors on that class of computer. Not even really any text editors in the modern sense. Want to write a quick program? If you were lucky, you might have tracked down an assembler, but probably you'd be hand-assembling your 6502 code and entering long strings of hex digits hoping you didn't make any mistakes. BASIC didn't arrive standard until the Apple II, and even then the default one was a stripped-down beast called "Integer BASIC" (ironically, Microsoft supplied a more usable, though somewhat slower, alternative.)Games? Well, maybe some semblance of Pong on the Apple 1, all in text.In short, please go try to use one of those old systems before you claim they were useful for anything you do on a daily basis with a modern computer. I think you'll find your statement is not accurate.
Closed AccountJul 29, 2007
Sure you can, will need Rosetta, tho...
zydecoJul 29, 2007
No, they just left an open area with all the important signals available in case you wanted to experiment with designing your own plug-in card or adding some extra capability. The old busses like S-100 and the Apple bus were a lot simpler to work with than USB, or PCI.
dypchitJul 30, 2007
Manual to go with it:<a class="user" href="http://www.landsnail.com/apple/local/apple1man/apple1man0.html">http://www.landsnail.com/apple/local/apple1man/apple1man0.html</a>