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By 1983 there were a whopping 2,000 pieces of software for Apples pre-Macintosh computer, the Apple II — more than for any other machine in the world. It turns out this left a trail for one historian to understand The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal. The new book (by New Yor...

A new history of the Apple II charts how computers became unavoidable fixtures of our daily lives.

The Apple II ushered in an age of personal computing, this is its little understood story.