In my town, I had choices of the Apple ][+, the TRS-80 Model 1 (with expansion chassis), and the Texas Instruments TI-99/4A. The Apple was a few hundred more th

In my town, I had choices of the Apple ][+, the TRS-80 Model 1 (with expansion chassis), and the Texas Instruments TI-99/4A. The Apple was a few hundred more than the others, but had the 8 card slots and looked good, so that's what we bought. The Tandy just had too many pieces and the casing was too robot-looking. The TI didn't have much software for it. Later, I looked at the 512K Mac, and at $2400 (even with the military exchange discount), it just wasn't a good value, so I went without a computer for a number of years, until I could buy an Atari 1040ST.