Steve Wozniak’s design did many things right: it incorporated a user-friendly keyboard in an era when most machines offered a baffling front panel of lights and switches, it included bit-addressable color graphics, supported low-cost floppy drives, and included a good BASIC language interpreter.It's hard to remember how revolutionary this was, and the fact that it sold (with modifications) for 20 years or so is amazing, in these days of 6-month product refreshes. It's still a wonder to behold, and if anyone has an original Apple II monitor they want to get rid of, please move it in my direction.
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