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Up in the loft somewhere we have an Apple IIc, with floppy floppy discs...
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Ah Apples. The first 'real' computer my family had was an Apple III. It was similar to a II, but could run DOS as well. Dual floppy drives, BASIC, daisy-wheel printer, etc...all of which I'm sure wasn't cheap in the mid 1980s. Dad bought it for use at his ad agency, but then decided he preferred the 8088 machines from Xerox. Those things ran CP/M, used 8-inch floppies, and were slow as hell. I inherited the last one to type up term papers, but only had it for a year. Couldn't play games, other than text ones, and new software (not to mention parts!) was nonexistent. Besides, it took up my entire desk! I ended up selling it for next to nothing, and bought a new (well, in '93 anyway) Dell 486/33 running Windows 3.1, 4MB RAM, etc. Keep in mind that was in the days when a 500MB hard drive was considered huge, and a 9600 modem was 'fast'
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Lucky bastards, getting pebbles. They gave me a half dozen grains of sandQuoth Broomjockey View Post
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Well, I sprang for a personal upgrade.Quoth Pedersen View PostLucky bastards, getting pebbles. They gave me a half dozen grains of sand I was on the sand plan, but I needed to be able to count higher. 
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