Apple II | TechMuseum
Year of manufacture: 1977-1979
Technical Specifications:
- Processor: MOS 6502, 1 MHz
- RAM: 4 KB
- FDD: Floppy disk 5.25″
- HDD: –
- Audio: One channel
- Connectors/Ports: Serial, parallel, card
- Case: Keyboard type
- Monitor: Color
- OS: Apple DOS
The Apple II features a MOS 6502 processor at 1 MHz and memory of 4kB. Equipped with a floppy disk of 5.25” it ran with the operating system of the DOS version.
Apple I was the first product ever sold by Apple Inc. back when the Homebrew Computer Club was meeting in a garage and the projects where financed from selling personal belongings of the founders.
The 8-bit home computer line, designed primarily by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs among others met great success. Actually, the family of computers became world’s first successful mass-produced computer products at that time. The Apple II series consists of Apple II+, IIe, IIc, II GS models.
Later, Apple introduced to the world the original Macintosh personal computer through a SuperBowl commercial video, called “1984”. During the years the company has made great innovations and the Mac series had undergone transitions. Regarding the processors from the powerful Motorola 68000 transitioned to IBM ProwerPC processors, to Intel x86 and now to Apple Silicon ones. Performance and power efficiency have been praised by the critics.
That was just a snapshot on the presentation of the techmuseum series. Indulge more into the history. Continue reading more about the present model, the Apple II here.
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