My memories was that an Apple II was a luxury item like a BMW. We got an Atari 400 and 410 by trading in my Atari 2600 and 23 cartridges. My dad bought the BA

My memories was that an Apple II was a luxury item like a BMW. We got an Atari 400 and 410 by trading in my Atari 2600 and 23 cartridges. My dad bought the BASIC cartridge with it[1]. There was no way our family could have afforded an Apple ($1,000+), and frankly in 1983 we didn't have the information sources to pick a Commodore[2]. I still don't think most parents are educated enough to do something as simple as a Raspberry Pi, and I worry about the whole that the loss of the 8-bit under $200 market left. I do wonder if someone built $100 Lisp Machines here in 2016 what that would do for CompSci education, but with App Stores and all the modern machinery, handing a cassette to friend to run on his computer is long gone. 1) I do wonder how it would have gone if he had bought the LOGO or Assembler cartridge instead. 2) I will say I'm glad we got the Atari (except for the keyboard) because I got to play with the great Jay Miner chipset