Also comparing a C64 with an Apple II that came out in 1977 is a bit unfair. I’d be more impressed if you came up with some impressive Commodore PET demos, as that’s the same timeframe that my ...

They presumably paid well under the asking price for a real Apple IIe, which cost around $1,500 at the time with two floppy disk drives and a green-screen display.

In a world of super-fast OS X and Windows machines, it's easy to forget that early desktop computers were a lot more basic. That was the case for the Apple II, Cupertino's first mass-market ...

As I noted in a recent story about my early days in tech, I did some of my first "serious" application development in Apple Basic on an Apple II Plus back in the early 1980s.