[IronJack]

I remember the old TRS-80 -- that's what he's talking about. You had to load the OS from tape; all it had aboard it was a boot ROM. And it had something like 4k of RAM, upgradable (later) to 8K. No hard drive; no floppy.

But I seriously think it was the Apple II that launched the personal computing revolution. There were so many of those things in schools and libraries that when kids thought "computer," they thought "Apple."

I still admire Jobs and Wozniak for their vision, which put computers on desks years before Michael Dell or IBM.

[Hazcat]

I has a "Trash 80" when I was in college. Had a modem setup to the schools' DEC10. That was hilarious trying to communicate. The phone modem was one of the "cradle" type!

[I still care]

Believe it or not I still have one, along with the tapes and instruction books.

[Nowhere Man]

But I seriously think it was the Apple II that launched the personal computing revolution. There were so many of those things in schools and libraries that when kids thought "computer," they thought "Apple."

Yea, I was one of them, I have an Apple //e myself as well as a TI-99/4A. I used it until 1992, the Apple, as my main computer until we got a Dell '486SX/25 (which is uder thism onitor as I type, Mom still likes Windows 3.1 and Word Perfect 5.1) and my current machine (I'm using now) I got in 1998, a Pentium II/266 MHz although I have a Pentium II/300 chip I ought to put in it. I also have a Thinkpad 570 but the screen croaked on it, IBM did have a problem with the screens on some of them, next time I'll get a Dell notebook PC.