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I'm assuming this was a Woz invention and it continuously blows my mind at how practical he was.

• ddingus 6y ago
  Well, if it was not, he was one of the first. Seriously practical. Having come from that era, watching this play out was interesting. The Apple was simple, very practical. Other more complicated and advanced machines had custom silicon. Sound, graphics. But, they often lacked utility, and the outcome was Apples being workstations. A whole lot of code and hardware dev for other systems got done on Apples, which offered enough of the basics to cover most bases. 80 columns, fast disks, slots, easy interfacing, no interrupts or DMA in base system, 6 color graphics not just 4, etc... The set of tradeoffs is admirable. I use mine today for retro code tinkering and some hardware fun. I have it running at 16Mhz, (which frankly is stupid fast) with the 16bit 65816 in it just for kicks. And that is robust. I can turn a knob and dial the clock up or down never missing a beat. Weird and fun. Bonus: Grand kids can experience Oregon Trail. I jumped onto one of these in the 80's and learned a ton!