Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 11th Nov 2008 20:39 UTC
Back in 1983, 25 years ago, the world was quite different. The market for the home computer - still a fairly new market - was wide open, but Apple was about to make a major splash with its Macintosh. It was also the year in which a company from Redmond first introduced its "Windows" operating system. What is this Windows you speak of?
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We had Apple II machines in our junior high and high schools in the Twin Cities in 1979/1980, and many of my friends had Apple II machines in their homes as well.
Microsoft Windows may have helped computer popularity in its day, but Apple had already made the personal computer a popular item several years before Microsoft became a factor.