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Home 🍎 News 🍎 Seen on CNET: The untold story behind Apple’s $13,000 operating system
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Seen on CNET: The untold story behind Apple’s $13,000 operating system

by a2fan April 3, 2013February 15, 2023

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Tech news giant CNET gave the Apple II some love today, posting an article about how Apple’s original DOS came into existence. Coincidentally, this is one of the themes we will be interactively exploring with Randy Wigginton at this year’s KansasFest. Be there or regret it forever.

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