What's the oldest videogame you still play?

[Pholus]

35. The last Apple product actually meant for tinkerers.

In my current lab one of the older researchers was only forcibly separated from his Apple II's just a couple years ago. He used them because they were simple enough he could be absolutely sure about what they were doing with his sensors and explain them to his students. But they gave the impression to outsider reviewers of being "obsolete" so he had to trash them in favor of spiffy "black box" commercial interface cards to the same instruments. Strangely, he spends much of his time these days debugging odd signatures that appear in his data that didn't used to be there before the switch.

Us older duffs are constantly surprised that our students these days simply take computers for granted. A lot of my generation's excitement was in MAKING them do things rather than seeing what cool things they can DO. The buy-in to understanding a computer like the Apple II was much smaller - so that a single person could actually do it. So I consider that computer Apple's true contribution to society.