1 To 500 Mhz
Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs, two good friends from
high school, started a revolution that will never end.
They invented the first Apple computer (Slater 3) The
Apple I, they called it, ran on one megahertz and had
eight thousand bites of memory and only eight bits of
pixels on the screen (Levey 5). By today's standards that
is absolutely nothing. Much like people of today, the
first testers of the computer did not even take it
seriously.
It wasn't until the Apple II came out in 1977 that
people paid attention to the Apple computers. The Apple
II was almost exactly like the Apple I, but it was
comparatively inexpensive, at $1,298 (Levey 11). From
1977 to 1993 Apple Computer produced and extension to the
Apple II series. Based on the MOStek 6502 microprocessor,
the first Apple II was the first personal computer with
the ability to display color graphics and to come in a
stylish plastic housing (Levey 15). From then on, Apple
updated the Apple II line further creating the Apple II+
with increased memory, the Apple IIe, which is the only
Apple computer to date to have been produced for more than
a decade, the Apple IIc, a compact version of the Apple
IIe with a faster processor and expanded memory, the Apple
IIc+, a later version of the Apple IIc, and the Apple
IIgs, the first,
last and only 16-bit Apple II, designed to produce
enhanced graphics and sound, with a much more powerful
microprocessor, and still compatible with the older 8-bit
Apple II software (Levey 24).
Even the new Apple III could not top the outstanding
performance of the Apple II series. Because of it's
outrageous price of $4,000 - $7,000, and minimal
improvements the Apple III is considered one of the
biggest bombs in the history of Apple Computers....
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