) Apple trees grew there also.

The original Apple Computer, also known retroactively as the Apple I, or Apple-1, is a personal computer released by the Apple Computer Company ( now Apple Inc .) in 1976.

It was also a less expensive alternative to the Apple Macintosh and IBM PC as a general-purpose business or home computer.

Version 4. 1, in a slightly modified form, was also the standard operating system for the Apple Network Server systems sold by Apple Computer to complement the Macintosh line.

Versions were also released for the IBM PC and compatibles, and the Apple IIGS.

Adaptors for Apple II and Apple III were also announced.

At that time MCP did also sell imported home computers like the TRS-80, the Video Genie, ( another TRS-80 clone ), the Luxor ABC 80 and the Apple II.

Amr Diab also won The African Music Awards 2009, Big Apple Music Awards ; Life Achievements Awards: Best Singer of The Year in 2009, and Best Male Act in African Music Awards 2010.

Dance troupes, including the Whitey's Lindy Hoppers ( also known as the Harlem Congaroos ), Hot Chocolates and Big Apple Dancers exhibited the Lindy Hop.

MINIX 1. 5, released in 1991, included support for MicroChannel IBM PS / 2 systems and was also ported to the Motorola 68000 and SPARC architectures, supporting the Atari ST, Commodore Amiga, Apple Macintosh and Sun SPARCstation computer platforms.

" Friends from Microsoft and Apple also helped him with research.

Occasionally video interface hardware was also integrated into the motherboard ; for example, on the Apple II and rarely on IBM-compatible computers such as the IBM PC Jr. Additional peripherals such as disk controllers and serial ports were provided as expansion cards.

The original Macintosh system software was partially based on the Lisa OS, previously released by Apple for the Lisa computer in 1983 and, as part of an agreement allowing Xerox to buy shares in Apple at a favorable rate, it also used concepts from the Xerox PARC Xerox Alto, which Steve Jobs and several other Macintosh team members had previewed.

The Snow Apple, also known as the Fameuse, is believed to be a parent of the McIntosh.

Multiplan for the Apple Macintosh was Microsoft's first GUI spreadsheet ; it was also the most successful spreadsheet for the early Mac.

Apple also made changes to applications: they resume in the same state as they were before they were closed ( similar to iOS ).

He also told the board that his new company would not compete with Apple and might even consider licensing its designs back to them to market under the Macintosh brand.

OS / 2 also includes a radical advancement in application development with compound document technology called OpenDoc, which was developed with Apple.

It was announced early in 1983 with a fall introduction at the target price of $ 500 for plug-in AppleNet cards for the Lisa and the Apple II.

At the time, they announced that " Apple realized that it's not in the business to create a networking system.

By this point Apple had a wide variety of communications products under development, and many of these were announced along with AppleTalk Phase II.

* 1983 – The Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal computer from Apple Inc. to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse, is announced.

Apple Computer announced an intention to acquire NeXT on December 20, 1996.

On May 20, 2005, Apple and the Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the recall of some Apple PowerBook G4 batteries.

On August 24, 2006, Apple and the CPSC announced an additional recall of more batteries for the same PowerBook models.

When TrueType and the license to Microsoft was announced, John Warnock of Adobe gave an impassioned speech in which he claimed Apple and Microsoft were selling snake oil, and then announced that the Type 1 format was open for anyone to use.

After Apple bought NeXT in 1997, it announced it would base its next operating system on OPENSTEP.

Negotiations between Apple and Adobe over the use of Postscript began in 1983 and an agreement was reached in December 1983, one month before Macintosh was announced.

In 1994, as customer anticipation increased for Microsoft's new version of Windows ( codenamed " Chicago "), Apple announced a set of upgrades to its own System 7 operating system that were not due to be released until two years later.

When the Apple IIGS computer was introduced by Apple Computer in September 1986, Apple also announced it would be making an upgrade kit for the IIe available for purchase.

The iPod line was announced by Apple on October 23, 2001, and released on November 10, 2001.

On February 21, 2012 Apple announced that it would open a " Green Data Center " on a 160 acre tract of land owned by the company.

In May 2012, Apple announced it would generate 60 percent of the Maiden facility ’ s power itself, through a large deployment of fuel cells at the site and a 100-acre solar farm, with an additional 150-acre site, two miles away.

On August 12, 2004 Johansen announced on his website that he defeated Apple's AirPort Express's encryption which lets users stream Apple Lossless files to their AirPort Expresses.

In October 2006, Johansen and DoubleTwist Ventures announced they had reverse engineered Apple Computer's DRM for iTunes, called FairPlay.

An adapter containing a power supply to provide the required 12 volts was available from Apple to permit connection of standard AUI transceivers to an AAUI port-this facilitated direct connection to 10BASE-F ( fibre optic ) and 10BASE5 ( ThickNet ) Ethernet networks, for which AAUI transceivers were not available.

Later Digital ported it to Ultrix, as well as Apple Macintosh and IBM PC running variants of DOS and Microsoft Windows under the name DEC Pathworks, allowing these systems to connect to DECnet networks of VAX machines as terminal nodes.

* June: The Festering Hate Apple ProDOS virus spreads from underground pirate BBS systems and starts infecting mainstream networks.

In 1997 Stuart Cheshire proposed adapting Apple Computer's Name Binding Protocol for IP networks.

Apple also added its own implementation of AppleTalk to the stack to support legacy networks.

Apple added much more support for Microsoft Windows networks, and Microsoft Windows sharing protocols.

An ACSA will have demonstrated the ability to install and configure Mac OS X systems, as well as the ability to design and configure networks ; enable, customize, tune, and troubleshoot a wide range of services ; and integrate Mac OS X, Mac OS X Server, and other Apple technologies within a multi-platform networked environment.

Apple argued that recordable CDs, the Internet, and office networks were quickly making diskettes obsolete.

For example, local area networks ( LANs ) that connect Microsoft Windows and Linux based personal computers with Apple Macintosh computers are heterogeneous.

In 2008, Universal HD added reruns of Jericho, Friday Night Lights, Kidnapped, Threshold, Touching Evil, Philly, Big Apple, Battlestar Galactica, Andy Barker, P. I., My Big Fat Greek Life, 3 lbs., South Beach and Sex, Love & Secrets, with some of those series having episode premieres on Universal HD, as they were canceled by their respective networks with episodes never aired.