Apple Computers and genealogy -- all things great and small

My earliest attempts to use computers for genealogy began with an AppleII with a primitive program that was entirely text based and used a dotmatrix printer with fan-fold paper. I remember that I ended upre-entering my entire file a number of times either due to data crashesor to incompatible upgrades. The amount of information about eachindividual and family was minimal, but the promise of organization andconvenience was worth the effort to keep entering data. Eventually, andcoincidentally, Apple introduced the Macintosh computer in 1984 and Ireally began to see the promise of actually doing my family history on acomputer and GEDCOMversion 1.o was released the same year. Doing genealogy on a computer,for me, dates officially from 1984. Personal Ancestral File 2.0 wasreleased in 1985 and eventually, released for the Macintosh.

Eventually,because of the limitations of program availability, I moved from using aMacintosh to using a PC especially after the Personal Ancestral Fileversion for Macintosh was discontinued.
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