The 16-bit Apple IIx; Apples On-Line
From The Apple Cart by Owen W. Linzmayer, originally appearing in Creative Computing, Vol. 11, No. 1 / January 1985 / Page 167, we present this trip down memory lane at Atarimagazines.com.
It Begins:
"It was just one year ago that Apple Computer introduced its revered Macintosh computer, and as the highly stylistic television ad with the female hammer thrower promised, saved the world from the Orwellian vision of 1984.
Indeed, Apple did change the public's perception of what a computer should be. They cast asunder the vision of a monitor perched precariously upon a clunky metal box with wires entangled like snakes in Indiana Jones's worst nightmares. Once the exclusive property of nerds with slide rules and plastic pocket protectors, computers suddenly became chic--fashionable. Cocktail party conversation centered on the attractive new computers coming out of Cupertino, and predictably the Macintosh became America's most expensive impulse purchase."

Apple Cart; The 16-bit Apple IIx; Apples On-Line