/tech/ - Technology★

1. Everything included onboard and ready to go. Composite video, keyboard, audio, speaker, full BASIC environment burned on the ROM, full documentation, RAM, joystick interface, cassette interface, PSU, AND A CASE.

2. Full complement of expansion slots, inexpensive and fast floppy option, cheap high resolution video/text options.

3. Original platform of VisiCalc.

4. Struck a deal with schools around the world to hook students on computing by buying Apple ]['s.

How much were Apple 2's in the early-mid 80's?

>>933015 (OP)

Apple PCs used to be a tool. Now they are a status symbol. They are doing the same thing Harley Davison did to itself, just in realtime.

>>933026

Hmm.. are Apple PCs even a status symbol anymore? Aren't you seen as kind of a nerd faggot if you have a Mac rather than an ipad/iphone?

Oh, and one other thing: Free phone support and generous warranties.

>>933021

Started at a little over $1k, went up to around $6k for a fully loaded system. That was a pretty decent price in the '70s and early '80s for such a machine. Atari/Commodore/Tandy/etc also sold less expandable machines for ~$500, but by the mid-'80s such cheaper systems plunged the bottom end of the market to below $100.

In the mid-'90s, the bottom end of the market shot up above $1k again due to the death of 8/16-bit platforms (need for 32-bit CPUs, >1MB RAM, >1MB FDD/HDD, p-scan displays, PCM sound, etc.), until nearly the 2000s when cheap "internet PCs" from the likes of Gateway and eMachines pushed prices back under $500.

>>933020

>4. Struck a deal with schools around the world to hook students on computing by buying Apple ]['s.

hahahaha nowadays schools deal with the big D and M$