My Vote is For Apple
September 29th, 2008
The first personal computer (PC) that I used was an Apple II, circa 1977. I read about it in an article in Fortune magazine and visited my local ComputerLand store to purchase it. Early adopters of Apple machines had to be comfortable plugging in circuit boards and controllers and handling floppy drives, monitors and other miscellaneous components of the early personal computers. I talked my boss at Pricewaterhouse into buying an Apple III (a more powerful machine) for our office in 1979 and we found that we had to classify it as a word processor (remember those?) instead of a computer since individual offices were not allowed to purchase computers. In 1981, IBM released its personal computer which operated under the Microsoft DOS operating system and the era of personal computing exploded.
Because the companies I worked for standardized on the MS-DOS/Windows platforms initiated by IBM, I didn’t go back to Apple for years. Around 1997, my wife and I purchased the first iMac for home use. Alas, the product didn’t meet our needs for power surfing on the internet, so we gifted it to a local school and purchased another Windows compatible machine for home use.
