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I sometimes wonder what the world would look like if Woz got his wish to not bury the Apple II (Which had a huge amount of ports for tinkerers/electronic maker
by hellbannedguy 5y ago
I sometimes wonder what the world would look like if Woz got his wish to not bury the Apple II (Which had a huge amount of ports for tinkerers/electronic maker type enthusiasts).
I was too young for the Apple II, but as a kid I saw a father working with his in his garage. He was always inventing something, and connecting it to the Apple.
In a way, it was one if the first Raspberry pi's? Kinda?
- ekianjo 5y agoThe Commodore 64 was much more akin to the Raspberry Pi's. You didn't have to be rich to have one.
- zabzonk 5y agoFrom wikipedia, the introductory price was: > US$595 (equivalent to $1,596 in 2020) Slightly more than a Pi. I could not afford one back then, particularly when you factored in the floppy disk drive prices.
- tyingq 5y agoThere were some price wars later where the C64 and some other 8 bit PCs became reasonably affordable.
- Narishma 5y agoStill 3 times cheaper than the Apple II.
- gfxgirl 5y agosame as Mac vs Windows today. Cheapest Mac Laptop $999. Cheapest Windows laptop $199, $299? https://www.amazon.com/Laptops-Under-500-Computers-Tablets/s?rh=n%3A565108%2Cp_36%3A2421886011 https://www.amazon.com/Laptops-Under-500-Computers-Tablets/s... posted from a mac
- iratewizard 5y agoWindows does manufacture a few laptops, but most are not Windows machines. They are machines that choose to license Windows for the OS component.
- tbihl 5y agoMicrosoft would be the manufacturer.
- swiley 5y agoI'd liken some of the smaller z80 machines and "trainers" to the raspberry pi. But the reality is nothing quite like the pi existed back then. Computing was significantly more expensive than it is now.
- ekianjo 5y agoit was the most popular computer of its time. you need to compare with how expensive computers were at the time otherwise your figures are meaningless.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y agoReally there were a lot of contenders for this title in the 8-bit micro age. I'd say I miss it, but I was too young to be a part of it. Sometimes I think I was born a generation late.
- blooalien 5y agoAh, the C= 64! Another great old machine. Did things no other personal computer of it's time could do. And Commodore Amiga was amazing, too. I miss Commodore hardware sometimes. Still tho, gotta love that toys like Raspberry Pi and Arduino (and other similar stuff) have been reviving the old-school "hacker" and "maker" mentalities. Downright amazing some of the nifty stuff people been building lately with them single board computers and other such components.