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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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Steve Wozniak SIGNED Apple 1 Computer Operation Manual
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Macintosh 512K plus software! VINTAGE!
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Apple StyleWriter 1200 Good Condition
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Apple Newton MessagePad 2 MB Flash Card in Original Box
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CD of Apple Update, collectible, AppHist(tm)
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NEW Apple Color StyleWriter 2200 M3474LL/A Collectible
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Original ©1994 Apple Macintosh System Software Manual
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Apple Writer for Apple II 1981 spec sheet, AppHist(tm)
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Steve Wozniak SIGNED Apple 1 Schematic Diagram *RARE*
$35.00
APPLE Newton 2000 W/ Case Charger + Keyboard
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Apple DOS Tool Kit spec sheet, AppleHistory(tm)
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1984 1st Macintosh 128K Carry Case Collector's Item!
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2 Apple Macintosh IIci Cache Cards
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Apple III 3 512K RAM Test & Diagnostic Disk Combo!
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The Apple Solutions Seminar VHS Videotape
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Apple Macintosh Mac Plus 1MB M0001A Computer VINTAGE!
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Quark Catalyst IIe - Apple IIe Hard Drive Software
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VINTAGE APPLE MAC SE FD/HD 4MB RAM 12MB HD OS 6 WORKS
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Apple's Inside Macintosh I-VI, X-ref, Comm. Toolbox
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** Vintage Apple Macintosh Se Computer M5011 Works
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CD of MacAdvocate, collectible, AppHist(tm)
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Apple Quicktak 200 Digital Camera Rare
$5.00
APPLE Newton 2000 W/ Case Charger + Keyboard
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Apple Mail List Manager spec sheet, 1981, AppHist(tm)
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Apple Computer Logo Badge Holder - Lanyard
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1993 QuarkXPress 3.2 (5) MAC Installs w/EFI Color 3180
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Apple Personal Modem - A9M0334 SEALED NEW IN BOX
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APPLE Newton 2000 W/ Case Charger + Keyboard w Printer
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Steve Wozniak SIGNED Vintage Apple High Density Disk
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Apple PowerBook 1400CS Laptop Collectible Vintage
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Universal Disk Controller for Laser 128 & Apple IIe
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APPLE MULTIMEDIA SERIES TV/VIDEO SYSTEM MACINTOSH
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Vintage Apple IIe computer with disk II drives
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Lot of 9 Miscellaneous Apple Newton MessagePad Disks
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Apple Newton MessagePad Solutions Guide 1996
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5 iMac Think Different Stickers still in package
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Vintage 1993 Apple MacIntosh Classic II Computer
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2 Vintage Apple Computer Rainbow Stickers
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Apple midi interface and cables mac rare
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Rare APPLE Teaching Learning Technology Interactive Kit
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Apple Keyboard ll M0487 FCC BCGM0487 Macintosh Mac
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APPLE II, Apple Macintosh 2 - T-shirt BLACK L large
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Genuine Apple Power Supply for Apple II+ or Apple IIe
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Apple Disk II Interface Card
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rare 1994 apple powerbook 520c troubleshooting guide
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RETRO COMPUTER - APPLE MACINTOSH 128K- POP ART PRINT
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Working Apple II floppy disk drive
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Vintage late '90s iMac Bondi Blue
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j033) Apple IIgs, Limited Edition, Woz Signature
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POWERPACK MACINTOSH POWERBOOK MODEL APP-1
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