Michael J. Mahon wrote:
Since I was doing my "picking" in Silicon Valley, it's not improbable that one of them was also a low number... I just always regarded the newer model as the more useful, more reliable, more desireable.
The irony here is that all your Apple II projects, the Applecrate and music synthesis could all be done on newer, more useful, more reliable and potentially more desireable equipment...
but you choose not to, and yet enjoy the challenge of doing those projects with an obsolete computer.