Apple II Bits

I don’t remember ever not having an Apple II in my house — and our early acquaintance made for a rough childhood. My very small elementary school class was composed primarily of jocks who didn’t take kindly to bookworms and computer nerds, producing an unwelcoming environment, to say the least. I often wondered, would it ever get better?

I didn’t have to wait long to find out. Ten years after middle school, I was in a college where computer prowess was lauded; ten years after that, the things I was into as a kid were mainstream and cool.

So if you ever wonder if things get better, just wait ten years — that’s the time in which geeks become hip, as detailed in H.P. Mendoza‘s music video, "In Ten Years", off the 2004 album Everything Is Pop:

And yep, that’s an Apple II in the first shot — or at least, it appears to be. Says Charles Mangin, "It looks like a II or II Plus with the badge on the cover removed, or a close clone. The drive certainly looks like a Disk II with the Apple logo removed or covered." The first game of the video being King’s Quest (with Sir Graham later getting jiggy) seems to cement the theory.

We shouldn’t be surprised. Of course Apple II users are cool! Wil Wheaton would agree: it’s awesome to be a nerd.

(Hat tip to <a href=”https://twitter.com/IQ_Adventures/status/624582018916028416″ title=”Infamous Quests on Twitter: “Because this can never be shared enough. In 10 Years I’ll Be Cool – @hpmendoza https://t.co/EXcCb2KhLs #retrogaming””>Infamous Quests, with whom I appeared on a panel this past spring about point-and-click adventure games!)