By that time the cheap Taiwanese PC clones were already more affordable than Apple 2s. My first computer was a "turbo xt", the likes of which were selling for l

By that time the cheap Taiwanese PC clones were already more affordable than Apple 2s. My first computer was a "turbo xt", the likes of which were selling for less than $1000 by the mid/late 1980s: http://books.google.de/books?id=Vi8EAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA30 http://books.google.de/books?id=Vi8EAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA30 http://books.google.de/books?id=Vy8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA54 http://books.google.de/books?id=Vy8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA54 Don't remember seeing many macs, most other kids had PCs too by the end of the 80s (my parents bought one in '87). I understand the apple2 was more popular in America though due to Apple pushing very aggresively into the school market.