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At this point in 1978 people who wanted to play around with a computer were picking up a TRS-80 from their local Radio Shack. Apple barely exists, and probably
by thought_alarm 6y ago
At this point in 1978 people who wanted to play around with a computer were picking up a TRS-80 from their local Radio Shack. Apple barely exists, and probably would have already gone bankrupt if not for the genius-level engineering of Woz's disk drive, which was far simpler and more reliable than anything else on the market and gave Apple its first real edge over the competition.
The Apple disk drive led to VisiCalc in 1979, and that's when Apple, and the personal computer industry in general, explodes into what we recognize it as today.