I can't help but think this article is practicing a bit of revisionist history. Apple had positioned itself solidly into education, and priced its products too

I can't help but think this article is practicing a bit of revisionist history. Apple had positioned itself solidly into education, and priced its products too high for the reach of most consumers; ditto with IBM and business. They aren't the two names I think of first when I think "personal computer revolution". When it came to true "personal computers" (ie, something you would buy to do, well, personal stuff), Commodore, Atari and Tandy / Radio Shack (Sinclair and Acorn in the UK) were the true trailblazers. Arcade conversions got kids interested in using them, parents had word processing and spreadsheets. And unlike the PC and the Apple II, these computers were _cheap_: Tandy's MC-10 was a colour computer for $100, the VIC-20 had more software for $200. The Commodore 64 sold more than anything else. I have a lot of nostalgic love for the Apple II -- but in the home space it was just one of many, many contenders.