History of Apple Inc. The Most Sensational

by frelihand2 kaskus.us - Apple Computer (now Apple, Inc.) is a major power in the revolution of the Personal Computer (PC) that hapenned in the 1970's and '80s. Even the ongoing revolution lasted until now thanks to the innovations that are constantly being made by the Apple developers. But you know, Apple never went bankrupt, or anything else along the glorious career of Apple inc. ?

Steve Jobs with his Macbook Air Before Steve Wozniak founded Apple with Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak was a hacker. Intelligence of Steve Wozniak is indeed seen since she was a child who is very fond of work especial algebra and mathematical algorithms. Steve Wozniak capability is certainly very significant in boosting his life as both Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs during his high school belongs to the people with lower-middle economy.

The Altair 8800 computer kit (January 1975)
In 1975, Steve Wozniak worked at Hewlett-Packard and helping his friend Steve Jobs design video games for Atari. From the profits, they use it to buy a computer that is very simple, one product of the leadership of Alex Kamradt Call Computer to study the mechanism. After seeing the discourse on building your own computer terminal at a magazine called Popular Electronics published in 1975, double Steve assemble their own computer with a spare part available. Computer Conversor assembled consisted of 24 rows and 40 columns, using only capital letters, using a video monitor can be connected to the teletype and Call Computer. Alex Kamradt positive response to this and worked with Steve Wozniak to sell the finished product through a trading firm owned Kamradt.

Altair 8800 Computer with 8 inch floppy disk size
In 1975, Wozniak started attending meetings of the Homebrew Computer Club. At the meeting the new Microcomputers such as the Altair 8800 and IMSAI inspired him to use a microprocessor to the computer and complete video teletype that he designed.
At that time the only available microcomputer CPU Intel 8080 of U.S. $ 179 and the 6800 is priced at $ 170. At that Wozniak intends to work with Motorola, but it was still not found a deal for the asking price range either Intel or Motorola at that time much of their budget range. But Wozniak did not give up. She saw, studying and designing computer scheme on paper. In his mind, making the CPU is only a matter of days.
When the MOS Technology 6502 chip (CMOS battery now) was released with a price range of U.S. $ 20 in 1976, Wozniak makes the program suitable for the chip with the BASIC language and began designing computer capable of running it. MOS 6502, designed by the same person who made ​​the 6800, because many workers in Silicon Valley who set up or make their own business as side job. Wozniak do a bit of small change to the new chip can run well.

At the meeting, Wozniak met his old friend Steven Jobs, who are equally interested in the commercial potential of the computer hobbyist Jobs. After approached by a local computer store, The Byte Shop, which in turn agreed to sell the products Jobs. But with the record, the computer must be properly assembled into a unified whole (assembled). The owner, Paul Terrell, said that he would order a 50 machine computer and pay U.S. $ 500 on each shipment. Jobs agrees that the offer and to contact Cramer Electronics, a distributor of electronic equipment on a national scale as a media partner. This was the beginning designed the Apple I, which became the foundation of the development of Apple products.

The first Apple Computer logo, made by Ronald Wayne

Apple logo in 1976 was made by Rob Janoff with the rainbow color theme used until 1998

Apple I

The Apple I, also known as the Apple-1, an the beginning of personal computer and regarded as the a pioneer of all or APPLE computers in the future. This computer was designed and built in hand made by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs who had the idea of ​​selling computers. Apple's first product was first shown to the public in April 1976 at the Homebrew Computer Club in Palo Alto, California and went on sale in July 1976 at a price of $ 666.66.

Apple II

Different from the Apple I, which still uses wood as the casing, the Apple II has made up by using different grades of metal casing. Apple II was launched in April 1977, and is intended for personal needs. Apple II has supported the Graphic, language BASIC, Visical (with Excel as a window), and comes with a game Oregon Trail. Apple II is also equipped with twin floppy disk drives and monitors. Apple II also features an integrated keyboard, sound, plastic cases, and eight internal expansion slots.

The Apple III

At the beginning of 1980's, Apple Computer faced increased competition from other companies. Main rival Apple Computer was Commodore. But it did not last long, after the computer manufacturer level mainframes, IBM, entering the market. Although the Apple II was declared ready platform for VisiCalc, the Apple III Apple continue to prepare to compete with IBM PC version

Xerox PARC and LISA

In December 1979, Steve Jobs and Apple computer technician group toured Xerox PARC laboratory and in the presence of researchers from Xerox, they demonstrate the GUI (Graphic User Interface) on the Alto computer. At that time Steve Jobs realized the importance of computer GUI in the future instead of using text-based interface (for example, comparison of the command with the command prompt on the screen compared to the command windows that is more convenient)
In cooperation pact Xerox about providing access to Apple for use of facilities owned by Xerox for 3 days to compensate for the stock exchange when it reached $ 1,000,000. During that time, Apple scientists studying the intricacies of the GUI or WIMP interface so as to produce the first Apple computer-based GUI and named LISA (supposedly the name is derived from Steve Jobs' first daughter is a continuation of Locally Integrated Software Architecture)
Only, Local Integrated Software Architecture or LISA can be regarded as a product fails APPLE because even though LISA is equipped with a mouse and GUI (Graphical User Interface), LISA is priced very expensive, around $ 10,000 and LISA are not compatible with previous products, namely the Apple II so failed to penetrate the market.

MAC 128k 

Launched in 1984 and is able to break the dominance of IBM and DOS at the time.

MAC II
After 3 years since the success of 128k MAC, in 1987 Apple launched  MAC II is added to the installation of Floppy Disk Slot (floppy) and also use Hard disk as data storage, in addition to the MAC II is also supported 8-bit/256 Color Video.

Macintosh Color Classic
The first APPLE computer screen color, there was Smiley icon, sound and contrast settings through the monitor screen.

MAC Portable

Released In 1989, the precursor MacBook sells for less than $ 6.500, with a weight of 6kg is also equipped with Trackball (Trackpad) and equipped with a battery that survived for 10jam.

 

TAM (Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh)
Had promoted in the film Batman & Robin, and already have a Sound Card and Remote Control.

 iMac

 With this iMac, APPLE can back out of bankruptcy occurred over 2 years.

iMac ini

One innovation of products that many people judge a craziness because it is produced without using Keyboard, Mouse and Monitor, released in 2005 at a price of $ 499.

MacBook Air

Described as the world's thinnest computer weighing only 1.5 Kg, the front thickness is only 0.16 inch and 0.76 inch rear. Interestingly, the laptop's casing is made ​​from easily recyclable aluminum and its components are made from materials that are not harmful.
And many more innovations from Apple like the iPad etc.