&#62; <i>And the type of person who spent a month's wages to tinker with a computer in the 1980s is not going to buy an iPad as their only computer today.</i><p>So, the <i>only</i> people that bought an Apple IIe were tinkerers already? What about the example of the father that bought it for the word processor? Is that example entirely unreasonable or blatantly false?<p>What about the Commodore 64?