Apple and the Personal Computer Revolution :: Technology Computers Steve Jobs

apple and the Personal estimator alterationLets take a trip back in time and review the evolution of a computing device company. Its non IBM or Microsoft. This company is Apple Computers, Incorporated. In the year 1976, before just about volume even thought about buying a computer for their homes. Back then the computer community was only a fewer nerds building simple computers from hobby kits. When Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs sold a van and twain programmable calculators for thirteen hundred dollars and started Apple Computers, Inc., in Jobs garage, the reach for success seemed far. yet these 2 young business men, Wozniak 26 years old and Jobs 21 years old, had a vision. Computers arent for nerds anymore, they announced. Computers are going to be the rhythm of the mind. Low cost computers for everyone. From the first day on the founders of Apple unbroken their vision intact, and they spoke it at every turn. They only hired people into the company that had the same visi ons as they did. In early 1976 Wozniak and Jobs finish endure on a preassembled computer circuit board. It has no Product keyboard, case, ponderous or graphics. They call it the Apple I. They form the Apple Computer political party on April Fools Day and sold the Apple I board for $666.66 at the Home brew Computer Club in Palo Alto, California. In 1977 the Apple II is available to the general public. Fully assembled and pretested, it includes 4K of standard memory, and comes equipped with two game paddles and a demo cassette. The price is $1,298. Customers use their own TV set as a monitor and store programs on sound cassette recorders. Compare this price with computers today. The price about the same, but the computer has changed tremendously. In 1979 Apple II+ is introduced, available with 48K of memory and a new auto-start read-only storage for easier startup and screen editing for $1,195. Apple II Pascal is alike released. In 1980 Apple FORTRAN introduced and proves to be a catalyst for high-level technological and educational applications. Apple III announced at the National Computer Conference. It has a new operating system, a built-in disk dominance and four peripheral slots priced at $3,495, the Apple III is the most ripe system in the companys history. Product In 1981 Accessory Products Division make to handle production of printers, modems and other peripherals. The Apple Language Card is introduced.