[quote=flu][quote=Allan from Fallbrook] I think I was in 3rd grade then around 1983 was when I got my IIe (thanks dad! :)…Helping my teacher use the IIe for a class presentation. I was one of the few kids that had a IIe …A whopping 128k memory, 80 column text card, joystick, floppy drive, and a ImageWriter dot matrix printer. My dad coughed up $3010.99 for that thing those days…I still have the receipt. Mine was partly made in taiwan. My friend on the other hand had a “Orange IIe”, which was a Apple IIE illegally copied and smuggled out of Taiwan.
The school’s system had me beat…A color monitor that could display 16 colors. Woohoo…. LOGO was the king of graphics then. “Show turtle”, etc…Hmmm, I should dig that out of my closet.
Those were the days. [/quote]
FLU: Yeah, they were. My high school had a pair of Apple IIes and a pair of Kaypro IIs (running CP/M; remember CP/M?) and all four could connect to Stanford’s Dept. of Mathematics by acoustic couplers (where you’d connect the telephone handset to the coupler device and connect at like 2 baud or so it seemed). This was considered “bleeding edge” technology and I remember downloading differential equations for AP on those old dinosaurs.
