Day 1: Retrocomputing Advent Calendar – Apple II #retrocomputing #firstcomputer #electronics

Day 1: Retrocomputing Advent Calendar – Apple II

We kick things off with the legendary Apple II! Released in 1977, it was one of the first highly successful personal computers, known for its revolutionary design, colorful graphics, and expandability. Created by Steve Wozniak, the Apple II sparked the personal computing revolution.

This was Ladyada’s first computer, used at school to learn touch-typing, write essays, LOGO, and make calendars with print shop. The games are now memes – Number Munchers, Oregon Trail, and Odell Lake. Almost 40 years later, we can still hear the teacher telling us to “Kill the Corvus” and carefully placing our 5.25″ diskette in the hard case after class to take it home.

Have Apple ][ memories, or retro computing memories? Post’em up in the comments, or post yours on socialz’ and tag them #retrocomputing #firstcomputer #electronics

Photos (and video from DESK of LADYADA).

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