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The timing of the withdrawal of Steve Jobs, one of the brightest business minds of the change of millennium, it is better to revise the beginning of the story: the Apple I, launched in 1976.
It is the materialization of an idea not too immunity, as many as had been similar to that time: a computer with the power of a scientific calculator with an operating system itself (ehem, better say firmware ), where one could record a cassette tape texts, receiving teleprinter (who came to the phone line) and learn to program in BASIC and assembler. It also could play. While connected to a TV that does not form part of the product. The keyboard would not be ergonomic. Why it was necessary to sacrifice the design? It was impossible to spend many hours working on it on a device like this.
The innovation was that it represented the great usability to work with a keyboard reminiscent of a typewriter at a time when computers operated switches with lever.
They were marketed and implemented. Cost U.S. $ 666.66. It was handmade, Jobs made the room, and when was small, the garage at home. They sold 200 units in just over a year when they released the Apple II.
Served but not much got what they wanted: to be the ones who did it and everyone is n’assabentés. They opened a window to the microcomputer and it would attract attention, some of which later facilitate the financing to make things bigger. Surely the 200 buyers moved more by passion than by the problems awaiting solutions. It’s worth having a computer on 24 hours to save the sound of a teletype when it arrives? How teletype devices were finally pushed aside with the purchase of an Apple I? I do not think too much.
The realization of this watermark was the work of one mind: Steve Wozniak, a co-worker of Jobs who designed the kit complete. But as he did? What was your point?
Building a computer
In March 1975, Woz, a designer of calculators 24 years at Hewlett-Packard, had long dreamed to have a microcomputer and attended a meeting with a bunch of nerds like him. And they talk about technology. He learned what a microprocessor and this was the fact that he lacked. On leaving the exciting conversation began to think about design. That night came the whole idea of what would be his own personal computer.
It gave workers the chance that HP could acquire the MOS 6200 microprocessor for only $ 20 (!). In his job working with a video terminal (screen) which took out the chips. This used to connect the terminal to the ARPANET. Or put another way, the Internet then.
The firmware was for the two PROM chips. This is a chip with a suitable machine can be programmed as a CD. Working at HP, I had everything I needed. Even an oscilloscope that he might need to see what was wrong connections.
With the RAM it had gone well. But his friend Steve Jobs, who also worked there, got him branded Intel reports that the much improved design. Not only that, but today’s memory design that still holds. It seems that this friend was getting very good things from people. In addition he was very passionate with the computer and asked him if one day they might or might connect to a floppy.
The computer should have a language. And so Bill Gates had been known to write a program in BASIC interpreter. And he brought him to the code (!). So he decided that his work computer with BASIC.
With all this, his friend Steve Jobs convinced him to form a company. He did not say anything to win money. He led the drive. Steve Jobs, to harness the talent of Steve Wozniak aroused his passion. He said that if left would have had at least a good company.
And with the Apple I and this sentence, the story begins.
