Actually, it was just one of our several Apple IIe computers. This model as released in 1983, so I’m guessing this photo dates to somewhere around 1984-85.
The Aloha Aina poster on the wall, with images from Kahoolawe protests, dates from 1976 or 1977, and was already looking old, the tape on the reverse side staining through the paper around the edges.
The photo was taken in the 2nd bedroom of our small townhouse in Tropic Gardens, the low rise development mauka of Kahala Mall, where we lived from 1978 through the middle of 1988.
About the computers. We bought our first Apple II, a black model distributed under the Bell & Howell label, in 1979. Several years later, I was making regular trips to the west coast to attend meetings in Pasadena, California. On at least two trips, I bought new Apple IIe computers and brought them back in the original boxes as luggage. We kept one at home, and Meda and I each had one in our office.
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Oh wow Ian, you got DUAL FLOPPIES on that puppy! I bet if you ask anyone under 30 of they ever had dual floppies they would think of something completely different.
My first computer was an Apple IIe. Good times!
We started with a black Apple II Plus by Bell & Howell. Disk drives weren’t available. You loaded programs from a casette tape player. Very primitive. But at the time, it seemed super cool!
Hey, that was my first foray into the world of computing. Apple IIe, with the 128k memory expansion, the dual floppy drives, and an Okidata dot-matrix printer.
Supposedly purchased for work/educational purposes, I think I spent more time playing Wizardry and Ultima games than anything else.