Apple Computer (now Apple, Inc.) is a major force in the revolution of the Personal Computer (PC) which took place in the 1970's dan'80s. And even continuous 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. ? Check out our search below.
Before Steve Wozniak founded Apple with Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak was a hacker. Skill 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 middle and lower economic
In 1975, Steve Wozniak worked at Hewlett-Packard and helping his friend Steve Jobs design video games for Atari. Of 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 the steve assemble your 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.
In 1975, Wozniak started attending meetings of the Homebrew Computer Club. At the meeting the new Microcomputers such as Al *** r 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 sampingan.Wozniak do a bit of small change to the new chip can run well. Wozniak penemuaanya refine and bring it to the Homebrew Computer Club meeting as a show off.
At the meeting, Wozniak met his old friend Steven Jobs, who are equally interested in the commercial potential of the computer hobbyist Jobs tersebut.Setelah was 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
Logo Apple Computer pertama kali, dibuat oleh Ronald Wayne
Logo Apple ketika tahun 1976 dibuat oleh Rob Janoff dengan tema warna pelangi yang digunakan hingga 1998
