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I had the 5th Apple II made. No solder mask, some jumpers and cuts on the board and I had to set HIMEM every time I booted up. Used a Radio Shack cassette player for storage.
It replaced the SDK 80 I soldered together in January 77. Had to go to the local computer store (yes, there was one, as I was in Silicon Valley) and hook up to an ASR 33 Teletype in order to input and output instructions. the 1.2K (bits) of onboard RAM allowed a grand total of 10 lines of instruction in TinyBASIC.
Almost bought a Lisa because of the graphic interface; went to the Mac unveiling and held out for 2 whole weeks. I remember later upgrading RAM in my Mac II - $1500 for 1 MB.
...but then I'm older than most of you newbies.
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