I'm looking forward to read your subscriptions from David Greelish from the book "Stan Veit's history of the personal computer". (It is the owner of The Classic Greelish Computing blog and recently started a new podcast, The Retrocomputing Roundtable). You can find both of these podcasts on the iTunes store as free podcasts, or listen to material written by Stan Veit Greelish here on the Web. What it was about listening to the first three chapters of the book is that Veit it really illustrates to me just how revolutionary Apple II was when she appeared on the market. Veit book talks about the difficulties in the use of machinery in the pre-Apple II, which were available. Usually need to have the ticker for comfortable input/output; "glass teletype" (video Terminal) had a price that was beyond the reach of most early fans. Saving programs has not been easy, either. If the user had one of the teletypes, often had the papertape punch and reader included, so they could "Save" their programs on punched tape. There were some tapes interface, but it was as difficult as the Apple II, maybe Yes.
Difficulties is reminded of when you use the Altair, IMSAI, and other pioneering microcomputer just makes me appreciate the many built-in functions offered by the Apple II. In the day, when you "glass teletypes" were also too expensive, in particular in the event that it the color of the, was the Apple II, would come in handy when you do that, or the regular color TVs if not. Cassette interface for saving and loading programs? Built-in. The ability to increase the RAM from 4 to full 48 kB, when the cost of RAM low enough? No problem. Keyboard? Part Of It. Sound? Absolutely! (How many Altairs or IMSAIs can sound back in 1977?)
Thank you David and his efforts to bring Greelish Stan Veit's history of life as a subscriptions! Strengthen its recognition as a clever Woz was.
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