When I was those kids’ age (8/9), that Apple computer was state of the art (around 1982/83). We actually had to write programs back then if we wanted to do anything (I just played a floppy of “The Oregon Trail” repeatedly). Just to have access to such a computer was a privilege.
I had a Texas Instruments computer at home which used cassette tapes for disks (for storage). Shocking how primitive that all is now, and how spoiled those kids are today. We may be better technologically speaking today, but we certainly aren’t in other cultural and moral categories.
Man, you had it made. I was still playing Hamurabi in BASIC on the TRS-80.
I played the Oregon Trail II in Computer class in grade school. I still remember that I always chose to play as a doctor, they had the 2nd most starting money and their settlers were less likely to get sick.
Parents in the ‘20s and 30’s probably thought their kids were spoiled for having electricity. Haha.
Ha... I remember working at a place where had a state-of-the-art “286” to SHARE between four people...
Had my very own DEC VT180 at home. Wow... boat anchor now.