No one in my surrounding had any interest in what I discovered in the magazine I found at the press center in my home town back in 1977. The magazine had the name Byte and it where filled with interesting articles about computers and a new industry growing. Computes back in 1977 was only for big companies who created lots of invoices and did other boring administrative tasks with them. But in Byte there were stories about microprocessors and boxed systems affordable for hobbyists. The first one that catch my interest was an Altair computer with lots of switches on the front with which it could be programed. Each switch represented a bit inside the computers memory, one row for the address and one for the content in that address.

At that time I was a dropout that made my living driving a cab one or two nights a week and all the money I earned went to buy food and pay my little apartments rent. So buying a computer was just a dream. Most computers where also to technical to make any one excited, but I remember I spent lots of time planning what I would do with it if I had one. My experience with programming was, at that time, only making calculating programs that figured out my earnings after a night driving around in the cab. My mother had been kind enough to buy me a Texas Instruments TI58 and it had some programming functions that I used.

I read every article over and over again, especially about two guys in a garage selling a computer board that could be connected via a RF-converter to a TV. It still was way out of my budget but my dream started to materialize, some day I would buy one. My interest only grow stronger so I decided to pick up some studies again and go to a local high school to learn some more. Since I started study again my mother, who probably had lost her faith in me for some years, told me that she wanted to support my studies if I needed anything. She probably meant money for food ond cloths but I suddenly saw a fantastic chance getting the founding to buy me one of the boxes that tickled my fantasy.

I had to read not only the articles one more time but also the ads. And there was lots of ads in Byte. After some time I felt that the only one that fitted my desire was the two Steve's next product, the Apple ][. It was a flat, nicely looking beige box with a keyboard in the front. It had all the functions I at that time felt I needed and it fitted my mothers budget, well almost. Since I already had a 17 inch color TV, which I had bought five years before, and a cassette player the system was complete. The TV had gathered all my friends at my flat every evening since i bought it, but now it served a new purpose and it fitted perfectly to my computer dreams.

Why did this Apple ][ computer fit me so perfect I did not know, it was just a strong feeling. I just thought it was perfect. Years later I realized that it was many things that made my feelings for it so strong, but at that time I just knew it was put together for me with some kind of love. Love for the product and love for the one that should use it.