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Apple Computers & Components

Vintage Apple

Vintage Apple Article

The Macintosh project started in the late 1970s with Jef Raskin, an Apple employee, who envisioned an easy-to-use, low-cost computer for the average consumer. In September 1979, Raskin was authorized to start hiring for the project, and he began to look for an engineer who could put together a prototype. Bill Atkinson, a member of Apple's Lisa team (which was developing a similar but higher-end computer), introduced him to Burrell Smith, a service technician who had been hired earlier that year as Apple employee #282. Over the years, Raskin assembled a large development team that designed and built the original Macintosh hardware and software; besides Raskin, Atkinson and Smith, the team included Chris Espinosa, Joanna Hoffman, George Crow, Jerry Manock, Susan Kare, Andy Hertzfeld and Daniel Kottke.

Smith.s first Macintosh board was built to Raskin.s design specifications: it had 64 kilobytes (KiB) of RAM, used the Motorola 6809E microprocessor, and was capable of supporting a 256×56 pixel black-and-white bitmap display. (The final product used a 9-inch, 512x342 monochrome display.) Bud Tribble, a Macintosh programmer, was interested in running the Lisa.s graphical programs on the Macintosh, and asked Smith whether he could incorporate the Lisa.s Motorola 68000 microprocessor into the Mac while still keeping the production cost down. By December 1980, Smith had succeeded in designing a board that not only used the 68000, but bumped its speed from 5 to 8 megahertz (MHz); this board also had the capacity to support a 384×56 bitmap display. Smith.s design used fewer RAM chips than the Lisa, which made production of the board significantly more cost-efficient. The final Mac design was self-contained and had far more programming code in ROM than most other computers; it had 128 KiB of RAM, in the form of sixteen, 64 kilobit (Kb) RAM chips soldered to the logicboard. Though there were no memory slots, its RAM was expandable to 512 KiB by means of soldering sixteen 256 Kib RAM chips in place of the factory-installed chips.

The innovative design caught the attention of Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple. Realizing that the Macintosh was more marketable than the Lisa, he began to focus his attention on the project. Raskin finally left the Macintosh project in 1981 over a personality conflict with Jobs, and the final Macintosh design is said to be closer to Jobs. ideas than Raskin.s. After hearing of the pioneering GUI technology being developed at Xerox PARC, Jobs negotiated a visit to see the Xerox Alto computer and Smalltalk development tools in exchange for Apple stock options. The Lisa and Macintosh user interfaces were partially influenced by technology seen at Xerox PARC and were combined with the Macintosh group's own ideas. Jobs also commissioned industrial designer Hartmut Esslinger to work on the Macintosh line, resulting in the "Snow White" design language; although it came too late for the earliest Macs, it was implemented in most other mid- to late-1980s Apple computers. However, Jobs.s leadership at the Macintosh project was short-lived; after an internal power struggle with new CEO John Sculley, Jobs was fired from Apple in 1985, went on to found NeXT, another computer company, and did not return until 1997. CEO John Sculley raised the price from US$1,995 to US$2,495 to pay for a massive marketing campaign.

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iPod POSTER Promo Ad Printed VINYL SHARP COLORS 37x77
$39.99
Apple IIe Super serial Card II 670-0020-D
$15.99
Apple II: Corvus Omninet Transporter Card
$19.99
Apple II Utilities Guide 152 Pages 1985 Incl Software
$29.99
Cool Fun for Kids for Macintosh by Apple Computer
$19.90
Apple Color Monitor Installation Manual
$9.99
Apple II PrinterPro Parallel Printer Interface w/cable
$59.99
Apple II ISAAC Interface Board Cyborg Corp D91A-8138-C
$89.99
Busn. and Personal File AND Auto Expenser for Apple II
$4.95
Apple Macintosh OS 8.5 Installation Manual Vintage NICE
$9.99
Apple II DataLink Card Applied Engineering 1987
$59.99
Apple II Dumpling GX Interface Card Microtek 1983
$69.99
RARE Apple Lisa Script Computer Picasso Button
$9.90
RARE Human Torch and Thing/Fantastic Four for Apple II
$19.99
Vintage Apple IIe 80 Column / 64k RAM Expansion Card
$9.99
Apple II, II Plus Reference Manual w/Schematics, 1981
$59.90
Apple II SUP R TERMINAL FIRMWARE REV 2.5 1982
$69.99
Apple PowerMac G4 Quicksilver 2002 Users Guide
$9.99
Apple iMac G3 Users Guide (Summer 2001) w/ Software
$18.99
Mastery Development Apple IIe Network and Printer Card
$89.99
Apple 15" PowerBook G4 FW800 Users Guide
$9.99
Apple II Corvus Systems Transporter Interface Card
$69.99
Apple 16K Ram Memory Card 16 pin connector
$59.99
Apple II 3.5 Drive Owners Guide 1986
$9.99
Apple II Vector 4609 Data Collection Interface Card
$69.99
Vintage Apple IIe W/Duodisk Drive Monitor Modem Memory
$369.99
The Legend of Kyrandia for Macintosh
$16.90
Apple II SUP R MOD II TV Interface Unit
$39.99
VERY RARE Apple II DOS 3.2 Utility Pack by Apple
$29.90
RARE Apple II Beneath Apple ProDOS Book
$29.90
Apple II Z80 Interface Card w/SGS Z80A NIB
$79.99
Apple IIe 80 Col/64K Mem Expansion Card 607-0103
$29.99
Apple II Micro-SCI Mem Expansion Card 1000-0058A
$39.99
Apple II Beagle Bros Button
$6.90
Macintosh Portable 5120 Owner's Guide/Manual c.1989
$59.99
Apple IIc Computer Power Supply A2M4017
$49.99
Apple PowerPrint Parallel to Serial Converter 590-0839
$29.99
RARE Apple II Plus Minute Manual for AppleWriter II
$19.90
iPod POSTER Promo Ad Printed VINYL SHARP COLORS 46X60
$49.99
Vintage Apple IIgs Desktop Bus ADB Keyboard with Cable
$24.95
NFL Challenge by XOR Corporation for the Macintosh
$39.90
Apple II A Touch of Applesoft BASIC Sealed
$19.99
Apple PowerMac G5 Users Guide
$9.99
ALS Smarterm II for the Apple II Plus
$29.90
Macintosh Mac LC II Desktop Computer Free S/H
$39.99
Apple IIGS Memory Expansion Card 670-0025
$19.95
Apple III - Pascal - A3D0005 - Complete in Box (1981)
$159.99
Vintage Daynaport Ethernet Adapter AAUI To RJ45
$34.99
AppleColorRGB Monitor Owners Guide
$9.99
2 pcs 4MHz 65C02 CPU (4 time faster apple iie 65c02)
$40.00
Smart Fun for Kids for Macintosh by Apple Computer, NEW
$19.90
Very rare: Welcome to Macintosh VHS / NTSC
$25.00
Power Mac 7100 Video Card
$3.99
Apple iBook G3 Users Guide
$9.99
Apple II Hayes MicroModem II Interface Card w/cable
$39.99
Spy's Demise Penguin - Apple II - New & Sealed (1982)
$129.99
Apple Computer Logo Royal Round Pen - NEW
$14.90
Vintage Apple 2c llc Computer Model A2S4000
$125.00
iPod POSTER Promo Ad Printed VINYL SHARP COLORS 26X50
$29.99
Alps Glidepoint mouse / trackball - ADB interface
$34.00
Apple II Analog Card 650-0103 1978
$89.99
Original Apple A2S1 Low S# 14701 w/Disk Works!
$999.99
Mac Monitor to VGA Converter Adapter Free S/H
$9.99
Vintage 14k Gold Apple Computer 5 Year Service Pendant
$169.99
Apple Macintosh LC 575 Vintage Mac
$309.99
50MB or External Hard Drive loaded with System 6
$75.00
Apple II: Beach Head, Westward Ho! and Shark Bait
$6.90
Apple Lisa SunREM Macworks Plus 1.0.18 OS + Manual
$89.99
Apple 5.25" External Floppy Drive Working
$14.99
Vintage Apple Macintosh 12" RGB M1299 Display Monitor
$139.99
Apple IIE Motherboard 820-0064-B R6502-40 1982
$69.99
AppleWorks Reference Manual 315 Pages 1983
$19.99
Brand New Apple Newton eMate Battery with Warranty!!!
$19.95
Publish-It! for the Apple II NEW in the Box
$24.90
Apple II Sunset Lab Interface Card
$69.99
iPod POSTER Promo Ad Printed VINYL SHARP COLORS 46X60
$49.99
Danger High Voltage Porcelain SIGNS Vintage'50's
$16.99
Apple II IEEE-488 Interface Card 670-0016 1980
$59.99
RARE HomeWord by Sierra On-line for Apple II
$19.90
Very rare: Own-a-Mac The movie VHS / NTSC
$35.00
iPod Promo Ad Poster ! Vinyl ! 26x50 ! Awsome Colors !
$24.99
Apple II Dumpling GX Parallel Printer Interface w/cable
$59.99
Apple II Video Interface Card
$39.99
Apple 12" PowerBook G4 DVI Users Guide
$9.99
Apple ImageWriter Owners Manual 122 pages 1985
$19.99
Apple II 80 Col Expansion Card 607-0102 1981
$29.99
Apple Macintosh LC 575 Vintage Mac
$309.99
Two Apple 2E Floppy Disk Drives (tested, non-working)
$6.95
Ethernet Card for Mac 7100
$3.99
Excellent Apple IIGS Programming Book
$24.90
ProDOS & Profile HD Support Tools Manual by Apple - NEW
$24.90
Apple Computer Logo Silver Pen - NEW
$24.90
iPod POSTER Promo Ad Printed On Vinyl 46X60 XXL RARE
$29.99
Apple Computer Logo White Coffee Mug - NEW
$34.90
Apple Lisa, Apple III, Apple II, Newton, Pippin, Mac CD
$89.90
Pyro! Original Mac screensaver - new / sealed!
$9.99
Human Torch and Thing/Fantastic Four for Apple II
$24.90
Apple II Language Card 670-X006 1979
$69.99
Apple eMac G4 Users Guide
$9.99