Apple ad, Byte magazine, Jan 1978

Jan 7, 2019 8:23 PM

Introducing Apple II

High resolution graphics up to 280x192 pixels - but only if you have at least 12 kb RAM.

4K of RAM.

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I see it this way: Rosemary (in the back) is waiting for her husband to finish calculating her ovulation cycle.

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Spock used a new repair technique

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Man, I remember these. People tend to forget/not realize exactly how far we've come with computers in such a short amount of time.

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Thanks for posting this! I’d never seen anything like this before

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Audio cassette as data device... one of the most terrible inventions. I owned a Commodore CPC with such a device and it was terrible slow!

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Faster than writing it all down then re-entering it.

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it sure was (i had one too) but it's not like there were a lot of alternatives at the time.

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Don't know about CPC, but c64 had "Turbo Tape" software that pushed load speed to 10x higher. So problem was more in original ROM routines.

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Beat punch cards, though!

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And. They still work. Tell me how your data of your laptop from 2010 is doing today.

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