I don’t know when the very first ones came out, but we got our first one maybe in 1987 and we were one of a small handful of people I knew with them. Not that NO one had them, but they didn’t seem very common. I did have one friend with a Mac, I think. She had something that looked like Windows and I was doing DOS. LOL I recall I didnt’ want to change to Windows when we upgraded. Hard to believe now.
Thanks. Read Post #12 if this Thread. “Son of Dark Skies” is correct and helped me to remember. They were “Apple II E’s.” They were Disc Opertating Systema (DOS) with a dot matrix printer.