4am ❧1d ago
Human Brain Enthusiast

Happy 50th, Apple!

(Here's my oldest!)

Apr 1 at 5:43pmWeb
Show threadDani ( Antifascista)1d ago

@thomasfuchs

Was way too expensive for me as a high-school student 😧

Fortunately, there were those kinda-affordable empty motherboards around that you had to get the required TTL (and other) chips for and solder together yourself. And a keyboard with a matching interface, and all the rest. 😀

Served me throughout university 😊

Show threadHuman Brain Enthusiast1d ago
@DanielaKEngert that's pretty badass
Show threadDani ( Antifascista)1d ago
@thomasfuchs
Still have it here in my office. I'm not sure if there is any magnetism left on the floppies, though 🤔
Show threadHuman Brain Enthusiast1d ago
@DanielaKEngert in my experience floppy disks and other magnetic storage last pretty much forever (except for hard disks)
Show threadErik Vorhes1d ago
@thomasfuchs Nice!
Show threadBits&Terminal Jeff1d ago

@thomasfuchs Here's one of its younger siblings (with a nice looking but broken CRT). I'm fond of this case design despite the terrible typing position.

#appleII

Show threadmtc_uk22h ago

@thomasfuchs
Memories! Mine had two floppy drives, so we could cheat at Wizardry. Wrote my first video game in BASIC on mine, storing the program on cassette tape (before I got the drives). Also wrote a program to project star maps as seen from any other nearby star. Fun times.

I sold mine to buy my first Macintosh.