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Klassic Kingdom
Apple
Apple
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1976 2008
The company of Apple was founded on April 1, 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozinak, and Ronald Wayne. Their first computer was hand-crafted from wood and had typewriterish look to it. It was called the Apple I computer. Turns out almighty Apple was once primitive too. The Apple I's were hand-built in Steve Wozinak's parent's living room.
(Man, all of the computer geniuses always lived at home.) The computer was first introduced to the public at Hombrew's computer Club. Eventually, Steve Wozinak made 200 Apple 1s. Apple I was sold as a motherboard, and if you know anything at all about computers, that was not a complete personal computer. The lucky user of that computer had to provide to different AC input voltages.
Had to wire an ASCII keyboard to a DIP connector, and to wire the video output pins to a monitor or to an RF modulator if a TV set was used. And get this, the keyboard wasn't even provided! Back then, you just about had to be a Harvard graduate to use a computer. Not todays computer geek who drops out of high school and makes websites and plays video games all day. (like many of my friends, but not me.)
But despite the fact that it looks like a prototype computer of the 70's, a store actually bought them. The Byte Shop to be exact. Eventually they ordered fifty units of them paying $500 dollars each. After that, alot of jobs were approaching this small computer store. Everyone was making a mad dash for a job there using a variety of methods. Including selling my most favorite fan in the world:The Volkswagen MicroBus type II. Man! I am so gonna get one of these for my first car!
After Apple I's great success, causing Apple to become a company, they decided to make a sequal to their first computer.It was called the Apple II. The Apple II was first introduced in April, 1977. It's every computer nerds dream(including mine) to get their
hands on one of these babies. Apparently, they got really cocky after their first success and progressed really fast. It had two floppy disk drives and an elevated monitor. Obviously, it was an all in one computer. It looked like someone took a normal typewriter of the eighties and slapped a computer monitor on it. All in all though, it was good. Heck, it even had color graphics. (WOW!) A plastic case even came with it too. It was one the first and most successful personal computers to be made.
Macintosh 128K
The Macintosh 128K was the sequal to the Apple two. It was obviously called the Macintosh 128K because it as 128 kilobytes. Now, for those who aren't computer geniuses, a kilobyte is approximatley 1,000 memory locations. In 1984, that was quite good for a personal computer. By todays standards, it is barely enough memory for a personal computer.
Macintosh Portable
In 1989, Apple released the Macintosh Portable, it's very first laptop. Well, it was more of a first attempt at making a portable laptop. My IBM Thinkpad has a mouse sensor bulit into it, using no rotational balls. The Macintosh Portable had to balls on either side of it that were rejustable. The battery was a total flaw. The Macintosh Portable would not run on AC adapter power, if the computer could no longer hold any more charge.
It ran on it's own battery through a computer-to-battery charge boost. Today, if you own a Macintosh Portable, the battery is probably dead. Machintosh Portable batteries are impossible to find today, so unfortunatley, these laptops are useless, unless you like to collect old comptuers like I do. Apple Newton
The Apple Newton just about has to be my favorite gadget that was ever created by Apple. It was like a Palm Pilot x50. This tool laid down the foundation for the Palm Pilot and the recent iPhone. The Apple Newton was released in the mid 90's.
iMac G3
The iMac G3 was released in 1998. This was a large step for computers then.
MacBook Pro
On June 6, 2005, the MacBook Pro was released. The standard software that came with the MacBook Pro was Mac OSX.
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