Re: Apple I Auction Article

[Eric Rucker <bhtooefr@gmail.com>]

On Nov 30, 3:04 am, mdj <mdj....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Most of the geeks I know loved that episode, but there seems to be a
> breakpoint at around 30 years of age (as of this writing). The geeks
> who are 20 something didn't have the mass exposure to the Apple II
> through their education that the somewhat older ones had.

It depends on how economically depressed your area was.

I recall going to school in the mid 90s, and they had Apple //es in
large quantities, a token IBM PC, and a token Mac. It wasn't until 96
or 97 that I switched to a school that was 486-heavy.

(Also, my family only had 8-bit Apple IIs until 1994, and we still
heavily used them until 1997.)

All of that said, I'm noticing a retrocomputing movement - not just
people picking up computers that they grew up with, but people my age
(and younger!) picking up old computers that they never got to use.