Apple

Introduction

Apple Computer, Inc., a U.S. information technology company founded in 1976 by ??Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. However, Steve Wozniak (21 years) and Steve Jobs (16 years) met in 1971 when a mutual friend Bill Fernandez the present. Woz (as he liked to call him Steve Wozniak) liked electronics. At thirteen he received a prize scientist to build your own machine by subtracting and adding. However, Apple was established on 1 April 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne founded. The initial capital of 1,750 U.S. dollars came from the sale of Jobs' VW bus and the Hewlett-Packard calculator from Wozniak (Levy, 319-322).

Wozniak attended an exhibition in San Francisco Computer Company where he discovered a small semiconductor manufacturer that was selling microprocessors to $ 20. It was an Intel chip but the MOS Technology 6205. Then Woz started to create their Apple I computer, though it was fully assembled which astonished his friends at the Homebrew Club (club for enthusiasts of computers). It was in the beginning of 1976 and Woz and Jobs considered the idea of starting a business: Woz sold his HP-65 calculator and Jobs his VW bus.

Discussion

The name Apple was the brainchild of Steve Jobs, when they founded the company, but Steve Wozniak did not agree with the name. However, they had given itself a deadline of five months for the founding of their company, and as they could think of no other name, Jobs announced the company as Apple Computer (Levy, 319-322).

Steve Wozniak designed the first computer to Los Altos in the still famous Silicon Valley, Steve Jobs and the assemblies it in the garage. There was formed in 1976 and the Apple I, which was sold for 666.66 U.S. dollars at the Byte Shop computer chain. The first slogan was Byte into an Apple. Several hundred copies of the Apple I was sold. In early 1977 Apple Computer was converted into a corporation and dissolved the partnership of the two company founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak with Ron Wayne.

In 1976, the company was established in the garage of Jobs. The first machine "Apple I" (the features were limited by the lack of money available to Woz and Jobs) sold for $ 666.66 and they sold 175 units. In mid-1976 Woz was working on a computer with technical improvements. The proposal was Apple II, features:-pound belt, keyboard, more elegant design, video memory to manage color display, expansion cards so that users can extend the capabilities of the computer. The final model Apple II was introduced in April 1977, Apple changed its logo (someone under the apple tree) by the famous colored apple logo. In mid-1979 Apple introduced the Apple II +, a development with more memory (48 KB expandable to 64 Kb) and BASIC language (Levy, 319-322).

Although Apple II sales were stronger, would need to think about a successor as soon as possible. Finally in 1980 went on sale Apple III, unfortunately some technical choices, among whom was not incorporating a fan, was ...