The original components I came home with: the Apple II Plus and the Apple 5.25" Disk Drive.
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On July 4, as I arrived at my parents' house for a week away from the Orbiting Ars Headquarters, I inherited a family heirloom of sorts: my father asked me if I'd want to take custody of an Apple II Plus computer stored in the attic.
Naturally, I was happy to take it off his hands. As I noted in a recent story about my early days in tech, I did some of my first "serious" application development in Apple Basic on an Apple II Plus back in the early 1980s. And having developed something of a reputation for trying to resurrect old technology, it was obvious that I needed to do something with the Apple II, which amazingly still has a relatively small but devoted following of hardware and software hackers and retro-technologists of various stripes.
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