Saturday, April 01, 2006 | On this day:

3 Decades of Macintosh.

John Beresford John Beresford was a high school student in the late 1970s when his family went computer shopping. Their choices were limited to RadioShack's TRS 80 and a few other machines favored by the few Americans who were dabbling with computers at the time as a hobby. Beresford's family chose to buy an Apple II computer produced by Apple Computer, the now-famous company co-founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. Apple is celebrating its 30th anniversary today, but Beresford thought back nearly three decades to his family's first computer purchase.