Home Computing Quotes

When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.

With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.

Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.

I left Apple in April of 1984, pretty soon after the introduction of the Mac.

I never have been a coder, outside of when I was twelve or something, like on the Atari 1200 XP or whatever I had.

After the Apple II was introduced, then came the Commodore and the Tandy TRS-80.

Right at the start, when I was about 13 or 14, I only had an Amiga 500 Plus running a bit of tracker software called OctaMED. My brother was big into his computers, and when he moved up to a proper PC, I took charge of the Amiga.

While my friends were busy listening to the Talking Heads, Police, and B-52s, I was busy teaching myself to program on the Atari.

I did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type.

People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now.

I remember watching my dad work on PCs, and I remember using Texas Instrument calculators in school. It was a bit nostalgic.

Though many people mistakenly credit IBM with the first PC in 1981, the Apple II came out four years earlier, in 1977.

I have all of the Apple products. Everything I've ever written, I've written on a Mac. My first computer, my roommates and I chipped in, and we got that first Macintosh - 128K. It had as much memory as a greeting card that plays music.

My first computer was a Commodore 64. I got it as a present from my mom when I was eight years old, and all I wanted to do with that computer was play games.

Microsoft was founded with a vision of a computer on every desk, and in every home. We've never wavered from that vision.

My first Macintosh was a 128k machine which I upgraded to 512k the minute it became possible.

Kids are finding out about the potential for discovery online from other sources; many of them have computers at home, for instance, or their friends have them.

I started on an Apple II, which I had bought at the very end of 1978 for half of my annual income. I made $4,500 a year, and I spent half of it on the computer.

Fairly cheap home computing was what changed my life.

Computers sort of came around through games and toys. And you know, the first computer most people had in the house may have been a computer to play 'Pong,' a little microprocessor embedded, and then other games that came after that.

I was a grad student at UC Berkeley when I bought my Apple II and it suddenly because a lot more interesting than school.

Trip Hawkins - and this was the early 1980s - was saying there's going to be a day when everyone has a computer and they're going to want to do more on it, including playing games. So he started up a company, EA Sports, and he was going to have three games, football, basketball and baseball. So I was the football game.

My first computers were a Timex Sinclair and an Apple II.

The computer seems easy because Apple makes the products so easy to use at home. It's the simple things, like getting the TV set up or getting the speakers to work. That drives me crazy.

There is no doubt that, since 1977 and the launch of Apple II - the first computer it produced for the mass market - many things which used to be done on paper, or on the telephone, have been done easier and faster on a screen.