Re: The Apple II, 20 years later...

[shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <19JUN199705515893@vax2.concordia.ca>,
Mitchell Spector <spec@vax2.concordia.ca> wrote:
>    Since everyone seems to have forgotten, this very month marks the
>20th anniversary of the Apple II computer! June 1977 (not sure of the
>exact day) was when Apple Computer began shipping the product. Apple
>may no longer manufacture, sell, support or even remember it, but it's
>nice to know there are still many of us still using the machine (in
>some form or another) to this day.

The Apple II Guide (an Apple publication) says that the II first appeared
in April '77 at the West Coast Computer Faire. It says June was when it became
widely available. So I'd say April is more like the anniversary myself.
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Randy Shackelford                                 
shack@frii.com