Which Apple product got you hooked?

[tech4all]

Got tired of:

While I didn't like it at first, I got used to it and liked it:

 

[smithrh]

First...
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Jeepers - not just *one* floppy drive, but *two* of the damn things.

We didn't have floppy drives. Or a floppy drive. No, we got the cassette tape player or Kansas City interface.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_City_standard

Don't really remember how long it used to take to load the SubLogic flight simulator (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Microsoft_Flight_Simulator) - which was the precursor to Microsoft's Flight Simulator, but it was many minutes and only worked about half the time.

So, yeah, Apple II for me. It may have been an IIe, but I really don't remember.

 

[flopticalcube]

Jeepers - not just *one* floppy drive, but *two* of the damn things.

It was the high school administration computer that doubled as a teaching machine. Programs on one drive, data on the other. We even had a Pascal compiler card!

 

[smithrh]

It was the high school administration computer that doubled as a teaching machine. Programs on one drive, data on the other. We even had a Pascal compiler card!

What an extreme embarrassment of riches! I'm still scarred for life with Pascal (not on the Apple, rather on an AT&T mainframe at college) - damn, miss one semicolon or brace and you'd have *thousands* of compile errors. On a 0.5KLOC program, no less. What a punishing experience that was.

Now, all you kids off my lawn!

 

[n8mac]

It was hard choosing a color but eventually went with strawberry. Loved that thing (except the mouse). Been Windows free ever since