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   From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On Mon, 15 Dec 2025 20:15:09 -0500, CrudeSausage wrote:   
      
   > Jobs wanted to give people the impression that their machines were   
   > premium by charging more. In the end, their machines weren't actually   
   > capable of anything more than the competition, though I believe that the   
   > Apple ][ felt more robust than machines from Atari and Commodore. Of   
   > course, I wasn't old enough to even own one at the time, so I'm basing   
   > myself on what other people have said.   
      
   And you could easily convert it to a real machine!   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-80_SoftCard   
      
   You still weren't out of the woods if you were a C programmer since the   
   keyboard was missing a few useful characters. iirc you could get them with   
   various three finger salutes.   
      
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