The History of Apple AppleComputers

Apple I  Sold as a motherboard  Not a whole computer by today’s standards  Homebrew Computer Club  Needed 2 AC input voltages

Apple II  April 17, 1977  West Coast Computer Faire  Market Leader  Cassette tape storage to 5 ½ floppy disk  Visicalc spreadsheet software program

Apple III  May 1980  Many recalled due to omittion of the “cooling fan”  Competed against IBM PC and MS- DOS

Apple Lisa  Based on Alto Computer  First computer with a GUI  Failed because of high price and because of limited software options

Apple Macintosh  Offered the LaserWriter printer  Offered desktop publishing  Offered advanced graphics  Sold better than Lisa

Apple Macintosh Portable  Introduced in 1989  Bulky and Large  Very unsuccessful at time of introduction

Apple PowerBook 100  Sony created this from the specs of the Mac Portable and made it smaller  20 MB hard drive  9 in Passive Matrix Screen  System 7 Mac OS

Apple Quicktake Digital Camera  Released in 1997  One of the first digital cameras  Very unsuccessful

Apple Power Macintosh Line  Attempt to regain a position in the competitive computer market  Used IBMs Power PC Processor  OS rewritten so that older Mac’s could still run on these programs

Apple iMac  Great leap in sales for Apple  Provided one of the best fiscal years since 1993  Allowed for digital video  Inspired iMovie and iDvd

Apple iPod  November 10, 2001  Apple’s first digital audio player  Introduced the itunes store to download compatable iPod music

Apple MacBook Pro and New iMac  January 10, 2006  New notebook computer  Four times faster than the powerbook models  iMac with 2 or 3 times faster performance