Re: The Woz being inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame

[Charles Richmond <richmond@dallas.net>]

Greg Buchner wrote:
> 
> Just read the following on Macintouch <http://www.macintouch.com/>
> 
> Personal computer pioneer and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is among
> seven inventors who will be inducted later this year into the National
> Inventors Hall of Fame for bringing about "advances in a broad range of
> technologies, including computers, medicine, manufacturing and
> communications." Specifically, Wozniak was honored for the "Apple II
> personal computer, which brought together the central processing unit
> (CPU), keyboard and disk drive in an affordable unit."
> 
Affordable is a matter of opinion...the Apple ]['s in the 1970's were
*very* expensive from my perspective.  In 1978, my dad bought us a
6800 system for around $400 (an APF Imagination Machine).  Although
it did *not* have the programs available or the sophistication of the
Apple ][, it was a nice machine to hack around with (it had a 
rudamentary machine language monitor). As I recall, an Apple ][ in
the same time frame sold for over $2000. I could *not* afford that...

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