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visit W.W. EY.com slash automotive. Using an Apple 2 is very easy.

The only hard part is getting your kid away from it.

This is a 1986 commercial for the Apple II, the revolutionary home computer that put Apple on the map.

In it, a boy types away at the computer while his typically nerdy looking dad tries to tempt him away with all manners of activities.

Skateboarding, basketball, even a car.

You see apples are the leading computers in schools so even though you want it to help you work at home

Your kid will want to use it for his own homework

Computers for homework? M solitaire instead. But this commercial does get one thing right.

The Apple II and its generation of personal computers allow curious young minds to learn how to program or perform

their own hardware autopsies. And you know what? Those kids grew up to be the founders

of today's biggest Silicon Valley startups.

We are now smack dab in the age of the internet, and it's all because some kids decided to

tinker around with a big beige box in the 1980s.

Of course if all else fails, there's one last thing you can try.

Get him an apple of his own. Welcome to Futurismo Bites, a mini-series on the quirky things happening and the drive towards tomorrow.

I'm Katie Burke, Automotive News Silicon Valley reporter,

and if I had spent my childhood messing around with computers,

I'd be floating right now on my yacht but with the millions I made on my hot internet startup instead of doing this podcast.

But other kids did spend a lot of time with computers growing up,

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