Nothing to do with Donuel's predicament, but just for the record, my first encounter with Apple computers was in 1979, and the model was the Apple iie (I think it was "iie" as opposed to "11e"

At the time, this was state of the art. 48k memory would you believe. It certainly impressed me.

In some ways I still hanker after these days when you had to be able to do a bit of BASIC programming in order to get the machine to do anything ...