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The original Apple II required execs to use a keyboard like a (usually female) secretary, have a Sony TV on the desk, and a rainbow ribbon cable. How dorky! With s/w like spreadsheets they outdid their coworkers. Wait for killer apps for . It's worthy of them.

Oh, and all of it cost a few thousand dollars at least, in 1979 dollars, with a 40x25 character-only screen.

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@danb Unfortunately so for a (at that time) interested teenager in Bavaria. 😆 Fast forward over 40 years and people still react mostly the same way. I still recall an article headlined „VisiCalc will be the software tail wagging the Apple dog“. Just wait for the next gen VisionPro and the few people playing around wirh current version will be coming up the „VisionPro tail“ 😁

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