Jason Snell: ‘Apple would never have made it if it weren’t for the Apple II, the company’s first hit product and the first one to generate the amount of devotion we’ve now come to expect from fans of Apple’s products. Their slogan was, and still is, “Apple II Forever!”’

The Apple II family is the system on which I cut my computing teeth. An entire generation of kids were inspired to “do stuff” with computers because of the Apple II—including yours truly.

https://jagsworkshop.com/2026/04/apple-ii-forever/

Apple II Forever

Jason Snell, writing for The Verge as part of its Apple @ 50 series: Apple would never have made it if it weren’t for the Apple II, the company’s first hit product and the first one to generate the amount of devotion we’ve now come to expect from

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@JasonAnthonyGuy This anniversary really makes me want to play Nasir’s Space Eggs
@sanguish I don’t think I played that one, but I played something I think was similar: Phoenix.