I have been looking into the Apple II and IIe recently, for various reasons, and I get the impression that these computers were way ahead of their time, at leas

I have been looking into the Apple II and IIe recently, for various reasons, and I get the impression that these computers were way ahead of their time, at least compared to the other "home computers" back then. They sure seem more powerful than the (very successful) Commodore 64; better BASIC, powerful other programming languages available, extension cards, disk operating system with subdirectories (unusual for the time), etc.