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From Wired:

June 5, 1977: From a Little Apple a Mighty Industry Grows

Tony Long 06.05.07 | 2:00 AM

1977: The Apple II, the world’s first “practical” personal computer, goes on sale.

The Apple II is the computer that made Apple a driving force in a new industry. The company’s original computer bore little resemblance to what we would now call a PC, but that all changed with the appearance of its successor, the Apple II.

Featuring an integrated keyboard, built-in BASIC programming languages, expandable memory, a monitor capable of color graphics, a sound card and expansion slots, the Apple II resembles today’s modern desktops in the way a ‘38 Plymouth resembles a Cadillac Escalade. Cruder, perhaps, with fewer bells and whistles, but a smoothly functioning machine nevertheless.

When Apple dominated the education market, it was largely the Apple II that filled classrooms around the United States, indeed around the world. Some of these machines remain in use today.

The Apple II remains one of the most successful personal computers ever built and, in fact, remained in production until October 1993, when the Macintosh finally put it out to pasture. In all its iterations, around 6 million of these puppies rolled off the assembly line.

(Source: Apple2history.org)

And I got on board at the end of ‘87 with this Macintosh interface ==>   

A new definition of ephemeral by Dennis Overbye in NY Times Science section

A direct quote from this morning’s (07/6/5) Science section:

We like to think we’re smarter than that now. We know space is sprinkled from now to forever with galaxies rushing away from one another under the impetus of the Big Bang.

Bask in your knowledge while you can. Our successors, whoever and wherever they are, may have no way of finding out about the Big Bang and the expanding universe, according to one of the more depressing scientific papers I have ever read.

If things keep going the way they are, Lawrence Krauss of Case Western Reserve University and Robert J. Scherrer of Vanderbilt University calculate, in 100 billion years the only galaxies left visible in the sky will be the half-dozen or so bound together gravitationally into what is known as the Local Group, which is not expanding and in fact will probably merge into one starry ball.

The end of the Unverse??????????