| ▲ | biofox 7 hours ago | |
What was the reasoning behind that? | ||
| ▲ | Dwedit an hour ago | parent | next [-] | |
It's because the Apple I had no built-in BASIC, and booted to a Monitor prompt. It was hard to use without a manual in front of you. Meanwhile, the Apple II just let you put in a disk and boot a program. Huge difference in usability. | ||
| ▲ | paulryanrogers 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Probably to reduce support costs. I recall my junior high school had only Apple IIs in 1995. | ||