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I was blown away how sharp an Apple ][ display is in person. It’s really hard to get across how cool it looks.

Amazingly, a classic first release Macintosh was vastly worse. Blurry and visible scan lines/interlace.

Were you looking at color or black-and-white? I always felt Apple II graphics were pretty meh due to all the color artifacts/fringing on composite monitors (IIgs being the exception, those generally had RGB monitors.)

green-on-black for a ][+ is what I have, but should be getting a recapped ][e model

Those monochrome monitors were very sharp. In elementary school, I had a friend with a IIe at home.

When I was born the Apple ][ was considered outdated but I had a teacher in HS who had a //e in the classroom and it's been my white whale since.

I grew up in the 80's, and the Apple II was basically everywhere in education! I remember we had a lab full of Apple IIe's. I had a IIc at home, but moved on to the Amiga sometime in middle school.

I was born in '97 so I grew up in the 00s and 10s.

I don't think I would have gotten into computers without Linux, the Internet, or the ease of PCIe - however I still appreciate being able to truly understand a computer from top to bottom like you can with old 8-bits. It's also really fun hunting for them online and meeting cool people.

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