Re:How Richard Garriott got started in games
by byteCoder on Sunday September 17, 2017 @02:25PM
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I suspect that Richard's first computer was an Apple ][+, not an Apple //e (as claimed by the article), as Ultima existed (published 1981) well before the Apple //e was released (1983).
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Re:How Richard Garriott got started in games
by CamperBob2 on Sunday September 17, 2017 @04:18PM
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Correct, it absolutely would not have been a //e. Not that it really makes a difference, but still, that was a weird thing for an otherwise-decent article (or rather, book excerpt) to get wrong.
His first Apple, circa 1979, was probably an original Apple II with a language card, equivalent to the II+ that came out in mid-year.
Interesting to note that it was so expensive that even a senior NASA astronaut, probably a GS-13, had to split the cost with his son.