First Personal Computer - The Apple IIe
July 1, 1989
The first PC that my family owned was the Apple IIe. In 1989 my Aunt Vanna (my father's sister) gave us her Apple IIe computer as she had upgraded to a new IBM PC. It had two 5 1/4-inch floppy drives and 64 KB of RAM. It had a green screen monitor and the keyboard was built into the PC case.
I remember we had several primitive video games that we played on it like: Zork and The Mist (based on Stephen King's The Mist). We also had AppleWorks for word processing. Learning AppleWorks actually came in handy for school as we used the same word processor for my Journalism classes.
Of course, the Apple IIe also included Applesoft BASIC. Soon after we got this PC, I took my first Microsoft BASIC programming course. By then end of that year I was fairly proficient in writing simple programs in BASIC on both the Tandy and Apple PCs.