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WillAdams 3 hours ago

One of my most vivid memories from childhood was being in a computer store which sold Apple ][s when a gentleman drove up in an (awesome) black Trans Am and declared to the salesperson, "I want a Visicalc" --- after explaining that it was a computer application and that the potential customer didn't have an Apple, the salesperson proceeded to put together pretty much my dream machine (at the time), an Apple ][ w/ dual-disk drives and 80 col. card and green display and 132 col. dot matrix printer, and of course, a copy of Visicalc.

After paying by writing out a check, I helped load everything into his car and he drove off into the sunset --- I was then allowed to choose a reformatted disk from the box as a reward and chose _The Softporn Adventure_ (which I then stupidly removed the label from, but it wasn't something I wanted to explain to my parents...).