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Rated: E · Non-fiction · Technology · #2217216

Recalling my first computer purchase so many years ago.

Apple II Plus

โ€œWeโ€™re getting a computer for Christmas?โ€
โ€œI donโ€™t want a computer!โ€
โ€œDear, do we really have to do this?โ€
We waited in line at the Apple Store โ€” the only store with a line, the Sunday before Christmas 1981.
โ€œNo one will ever use 64K of memory,โ€ the salesman said.
Pac Man, Cookie Monster, Balloons, and Lemonade Stand stormed into our house on a 5 ยผ-inch floppy disk. Our world, the whole world, changed forever.
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