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When Steve Jobs introduced the Macintosh in 1984, he let the computer speak for itself. I have often wondered how they did that on a computer with 128K RAM, an 8 MHz CPU, and a 400K disk drive. I think that I have found the answer. I have came by a program called Speak from … Read more
Apple first entered the laptop market with the release of the Macintosh Portable on September 20, 1989. The Portable was not a strong seller. Apple followed up the Portable with the PowerBook 100, PowerBook 140, and PowerBook 170, which turned out to be so successful that for a brief time Apple became the worldwide number … Read more
Apple has throughout much of its history resisted licensing its technology. This resistance has more than anything else fostered the creation of a separate and dominant industry standard, Microsoft Windows. Many insiders at Apple favored the concept of licensing in the early 1980s, but the company’s leadership as a whole, did not want to lose … Read more
Apple forever changed the computer industry and perhaps the course of human history by introducing the Macintosh in January 1984. That is bold statement that we can’t fully back up, but many Mac fanatics would not find fault with us for our love of Apple history and our affinity for the first generation Macs. The … Read more
Apple introduced the ImageWriter dot matrix printer on June 1, 1984 as the standard printer for the Macintosh, introduced earlier that same year. The 9-pin ImageWriter, built by Tokyo Electronic, can print all Macintosh screen fonts and graphics, as well as screen dumps (replicas of the screen)[1]. The ImageWriter was originally conceived as a replacement … Read more
This page contains every external drive in the collection compatible only with Apple II computers. This page will be updated as we obtain more drives. Some drives in the collection are compatible with both Macintosh and Apple II computers. These drives can be found on the External Macintosh Drives page. Connecting a drive to a … Read more
Applesoft BASIC is a versatile language. It is possible to design simple games using low-resolution graphics. You won’t be winning any awards for graphics but it is an interesting way to spend an afternoon. Listed below is a Pong program I designed. It uses the up arrow and down arrow to control the paddle (vertical … Read more
Apple introduced the Apple II in 1977. The Apple II line stayed in production until 1993. The Apple IIe variant, first released in 1983 and later upgraded in 1985 (Enhanced Apple IIe), can lay claim to one of the longest production runs of any computer in history. This feat is unheard of in today’s market … Read more
The ImageWriter II is a dot matrix printer produced by Apple beginning in 1985. It was a redesign of the ImageWriter. The ImageWriter II would set you back about $600 in 1985. It was the mainstay of Apple printing in the late 1980’s. It remained so until PostScript and cheap inkjet printers like the StyleWriter … Read more
In 1975, Steve “Woz” Wozniak was thinking about building his own microcomputer. He decided to use the 6800 microprocessor instead of the 8080, then used by most microcomputers. The 6800 cost about $275 per processor and this was more than Woz wanted to pay for a microprocessor. Then the Wescon annual electronics show came to … Read more