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It has been a long time since Bill Gates and his friend wrote a book for the Altair computer. Here is one in 1975:





The first Apple computer was invented and designed by Steven Jobs and a Polish guy that I can't remember the name of. Here is Apple Lisa, Januray 1983:





and Apple II: April 1977



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I remember how slow the Apple I loader was. It toke several hours to actually get somewhere and we suddenly pitched the darn thing after trying so hard.


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wow I remember using those things


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My first computer was called a TRS-80 ("Trash Eighty" among fellow geeks). It was a native BASIC machine and I had to store all my programs on audio cassette tapes with a special tape recorder that the computer could advance, rewind, play back and record to.


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Here is the only image I have of a TRS-80 and they were trash as I remember having to use one.





This was my TRS-80 when I was in 10th grade.


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I remember using the Apple II's with 6" floppies in elementary school. But I notice they were created in 1977, and I was in elementary school in the early 90's, so I guess my school just had old equipment.


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My TRS-80 was older than that. It was before the time of LCD display screens. It actually plugged into a black & white TV screen and the computer was encased in the keyboard, a silver/grayish color and rather large in size. It was connected by cables to the tape recorder, power, and the video monitor.




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Yes that is an old TRS-80. My keyboard wasn't that thick at all. Anyway, when I was in high school we used an Apple 1 computer which was the worst kind of Apple. I lost all of my memory, all of my folders and on top of that it toke so long to load up. Your school used newer epuipment than mine did.


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