The case, PSU, keyboard and TV were not included in the package, the buyer had to get them on their own.Īpple I connected to the TV through the antenna input and could display 24 lines of 40 characters. The computer had a built-in TV output, connectors for 8 KB of memory, keyboard and cassette recorder interfaces. The Intel 8080 was approximately similar in parameters, but it was more expensive. It was a simplified version of the more expensive Motorola 6800 chip. The first product under this name was Wozniak's computer.Īpple I was based on the 8-bit processor MOS Technology 6502, with a frequency of less than 1 MHz. On April 1, 1976, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Atari engineer Ronald Wayne founded Apple. But this project was not interesting to them, so he asked to give them free. In late 1975, Steve Wozniak completed a prototype computer, which would soon become known as Apple I.

In this part, let's see what happened before the Macintosh and Apple Lisa.

I plan 3 or 4 parts, depending on how it turns out in volume. Some of the images were added during translation for clarity.

I begin the translation of Amit Singh’s very thorough work on the history of Apple operating systems.

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