Posts Tagged ‘Apple II’

1976 – Steve Wozniak, an employee at Hewlett Packard at the time, builds his first Apple computer. It was for the Homebrew club and incorporates his designs. The computer club is held the next day and Steve Jobs meets up with Woz, where they will join forces and create the Apple 1 computer. Of course, that computer only sold 200, but it was the segway to the Apple II, one of the best selling computers of all time.

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Other Technology History Facts

• LISP Programmers Manual is released
• Palm Inc gets it’s first IPO
• MSNBC.com launches Newsvine

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1981 – Before Michael Scott was the head of Dunder Mifflin in the Office, he was the Apple Computer President. In his tenure, Mike sends an internal memo talking about how Apple needs to become a Typewriter-less company. The memo outlines their process for doing so and how it’s a campaign for all offices to ditch the Typewriter and get an Apple II. The memo was attached with a note with specific instructions for Ken to get rid of his DEC word processor ASAP.

**Note – Mike Scott of “The Office” (NBC) and Mike Scott of Apple are of no relation. Purely coincidental.

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Other Historical Events in Technology

• Texas Instruments Patents the integrated circuit
• Patrick Naughton, Mike Sheridan and James Gosling begin devolpment of Java
• Microsoft offers a Bid to buy Yahoo for 44.6 Billion

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1979 – Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston incorporate Software Arts to publish their program called “VisiCalc” – an early spreadsheet program. It was geared for the Apple II computer line. This was the first real business application – sometimes called the “Killer App”.

The company was later renamed to VisiCorp

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Other Historical Events in Technology

• Coleco sells Adam
• Intel recalls 1.3 GHz chips
• EMC purchases SourceLabs

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Psystar came on the scene with a very interesting proposition: Get a PC with Mac OS X. Can it be done?

Ever since the switch from PowerPC to Intel, Mac software has been attempted and successfully installed on PC’s with Intel and AMD processors. So the next step would be to have someone package it up, right?

Well, no. Apples’ End User License Agreement states that the OSX software can only be run on Mac approved hardware. Therefore, Psystar breeches the agreement.

Psystar still continued on. Only hours after the websites caught on about this company, the website went down. People started speculating more about this “Publicity stunt”. The company “PowerPay” ended their contract with Psystar because they were not honoring the Service Agreement.

Psystar said “That’s OK. We’ll use Paypal”.

A year later, they’re still around fighting the good fight. Or is it a good fight? Maybe Psystar is the true “PC Hunter”. After all, they show you that you can have your cake and eat it, too.

Mmmm. Cake.

In the podcast we also talk about the Blockbuster – Circuit City bid, the debut of the Apple II, a $14,000 Apple I and The Osbourne and Osbourne II.

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A little later than usual, but we got your week in tech history right here. It includes:

Active Inc LCD Display

iPhone 1.0 released

IEEE Standard

Windows 98 released

AOL buys Mapquest

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For the last ten years, Duke Nukem has been promising “Duke Nukem Forever” - the sequel to the 3D first player game. Now it looks like the game has finally grown some legs. Does this show that Vaporware can possibly become reality?

The long awaited sequel started back in 1997. Using the Quake II Engine – basically a licensed program within the game itself which runs the 3-D realm – the game was going to continue the saga between Nukem and Dr. Proton – Nukems’ original arch nemesis. The plan was to release the game by 1998.

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