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The Early Days: From Garage Circuits to the School Computer Lab

Apple began in 1976 with the Apple I — a bare circuit board hand‑built in a garage. But the real Apple memory for many Australians wasn’t the Apple I at all. It was the Apple II, lined up in school computer rooms across the country. It taught a generation the basics of computing through Oregon Trail, Number Munchers and Logo Turtle. It was curious, playful and unintimidating — everything early computers weren’t supposed to be.