Difference between Mac and P.C

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Let's see, this would go back to about 1977. I was in 10th grade at the
time and was already a fourth-year computer geek. Our high school had just
got in another computer to put alongside of the two teletypes (yeah,
teletypes, punch cards, punch tape, and 100-baud modems). Gasp! It was the
brand-new Apple IIe! We almost immediately abandoned the teletypes. After
the first overheat, we had to bring in a big window fan for it, since no-
one had made a power supply with a built-in fan yet.
It wasn't until 1981 that IBM released their first PC. If memory serves
me correctly, it had a 8088 4.77Mhz CPU, 16K RAM, 40K(?) ROM, two 5 ¼"
160KB floppy disk drives, a video/printer card (I still have one of
these), and an audio cassette connection (tape drives were still used for
data backup). All this for about $1,500, I think it was.
Some of us geeks who attended or hung around CSUN back then were
finally able to sort out the differences between the two pla...