The Apple II was not designed like an ordinary product. It used crazy tricks everywhere.

I started working at Apple about 18 months after I bought my Apple II.

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

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

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

I knew the Apple II was great when I bought it, but as I dug into the details it just completely blew me away the creative artistic approach that the designers had taken.