Unlike other hobbyist computers of its day, which were sold as kits, the Apple I was a fully assembled circuit board containing about 60 + chips.

As Wozniak was the only person who could answer most customer support questions about the computer, the company offered Apple I owners discounts and trade-ins for Apple IIs to persuade them to return their computers, contributing to their scarcity.

As of 2012, less than 50 Apple I computers ( with only six in working order ) are believed to exist, making it a very rare collector's item.

Applesoft BASIC was a dialect of Microsoft BASIC supplied with the Apple II series of computers.

It superseded Integer BASIC and was the BASIC in ROM in all Apple II series computers after the original Apple II model.

Originally released for the IBM 6150 RISC workstation, AIX now supports or has supported a wide variety of hardware platforms, including the IBM RS / 6000 series and later IBM POWER and PowerPC-based systems, IBM System i, System / 370 mainframes, PS / 2 personal computers, and the Apple Network Server.

AppleTalk is a proprietary suite of networking protocols developed by Apple Inc. for their Mac computers.

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.

Powering the system was an Atari SALLY 6502 ( Atari's slightly custom 6502, sometimes described as a " 6502C ") processor running at 1. 79 MHz, similar to the processor found in home computers ( Atari 8-bit, Apple II, Commodore 64 ) and other consoles ( Atari 5200 and Nintendo Entertainment System ).

Early personal computers like the Apple II and the IBM PC integrated an internal backplane for expansion cards.

; Macintosh Common Lisp: Version 5. 2 for Apple Macintosh computers with a PowerPC processor running Mac OS X is open source.

RMCL ( based on MCL 5. 2 ) runs on Intel-based Apple Macintosh computers using the Rosetta binary translator from Apple.

On Apple Macintosh computers, there are keyboard shortcuts for the most common diacritics ; Option-e followed by a vowel places an acute accent, Option-u followed by a vowel gives an umlaut, option-c gives a cedilla, etc.

* The DOS operating system was the primary operating system for the Apple Computer's Apple II family of computers, from 1979 with the introduction of the floppy disk drive, until 1983 with the introduction of ProDOS ; many people continued using it long after that date.

The Nova influenced the design of both the Xerox Alto ( 1973 ) and Apple I ( 1976 ) computers, and its architecture was the basis for the Computervision CGP ( Computervision Graphics Processor ) series.

By including interaction, scripting, and compilation, Forth was popular on computers with limited resources, such as the BBC Micro and Apple II series, and remains so in applications such as firmware and small microcontrollers.

* Power Mac G4, a series of personal computers made by Apple Inc.

With the Z-machine, Infocom was able to release most of their games for most popular home computers of the day simultaneously — the Apple II family, Atari 800, IBM PC compatibles, Amstrad CPC / PCW ( one disc worked on both machines ), Commodore 64, Commodore Plus / 4, Commodore 128, Kaypro CP / M, Texas Instruments TI-99 / 4A, the Mac, Atari ST, the Commodore Amiga and the Radio Shack TRS-80.

* 1977 – The Apple II, one of the first personal computers, goes on sale.

The most popular computers such as the Apple II and IBM PC had published schematic diagrams and other documentation which permitted rapid reverse-engineering and third-party replacement motherboards.

Early personal computers such as the Apple II or IBM PC included only this minimal peripheral support on the motherboard.

Apple had considered the problem, and AppleTalk included the possibility for a low-cost LocalTalk-to-Ethernet bridge, but they felt it would be a low-volume product and left it to 3rd parties.

Also featured were two music videos (" Long Hard Road Out of Hell " by Marilyn Manson and " Criminal " by Fiona Apple ) not included in any of the show's regular episodes.

Such firms would have included Claris, Apple, Symantec, Microsoft, and Lotus.

Apple ended their Dylan development effort in 1995, though they made a " technology release " version available (" Apple Dylan TR1 ") that included an advanced IDE.

Microsoft had worked with Apple Computer to develop Desk Accessories and other minor pieces of software that were included with early Macintosh system software.

In response to the impending release of OS / 2 2. 0, Microsoft developed Windows 3. 1, which included several minor improvements to Windows 3. 0 ( such as display of TrueType scalable fonts, developed jointly with Apple ), but primarily consisted of bugfixes and multimedia support.

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.

Productions of the 1980s and 1990s included The Apple, Xanadu, Annie, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Victor Victoria, Footloose, Little Shop of Horrors, Absolute Beginners, Evita and Everyone Says I Love You.

The 65xx family most notably included the 6502, used in several home computers such as the Commodore PET and VIC-20, the Apple II, and the Atari 800.

Apple included an updated version of the original Macintosh toolbox that allowed existing Mac applications access to the environment without the constraints of Blue Box called Carbon.

Meanwhile, in exchange for Truetype, Apple got a license for TrueImage, a PostScript-compatible page description language owned by Microsoft that Apple could use in their laser printers. This was never actually included in any Apple products when a later deal was struck between Apple and Adobe, where Adobe promised to put a TrueType interpreter in their PostScript printer boards, Apple renewed its agreements with Adobe for the use of PostScript in its printers ; resulting in lower royalty payments to Adobe who was beginning to license printer controllers capable of competing directly with Apple's LaserWriter printers.

Numerous versions included Apple II, TI 99 / 4a, DEC PDP-11, Zilog Z80 and MOS 6502 based machines, Motorola 68000 and the IBM PC ( Version II on the PC was restricted to one 64K code segment and one 64K stack / heap data segment ; Version IV removed the code segment limit but cost a lot more ).

Vim is included with almost every Linux distribution ( and is also shipped with every copy of Apple Mac OS X ).

On Mac OS X v10. 5 ( Leopard ), Apple included X. org ( X11R7. 2 codebase ) instead of XFree86 ( X11R6. 8 ).

It was derived directly from Smalltalk-80 by a group at Apple Computer that included some of the original Smalltalk-80 developers.

It lacked most features that the Apple Newton included, but had a lower price at $ 450.

In 1984 Palatino was one of the typefaces originally included by Apple Computer in the Macintosh.

Apple File Services, Macintosh Manager, QuickTime Streaming Server, WebObjects and NetBoot were included with Mac OS X Server 1. 0-1. 2v3.

* AIFF – standard audio file format used by Apple.

Apple Computer's AIFF is a big endian audio file format developed from IFF.

FireWire or IEEE 1394 is a serial expansion bus originally promoted by Apple Inc. Often used for storage and video cameras, it has application for networking, video, and audio.

The iPod line can play several audio file formats including MP3, AAC / M4A, Protected AAC, AIFF, WAV, Audible audiobook, and Apple Lossless.

Support for VBR in AAC and MP3 files is found in most modern digital audio players, including those released by Microsoft, Apple, Creative Technology, and SanDisk.

Audiophiles play music from a wide variety of sources including phonograph records, compact discs ( CDs ), and digital audio file formats that are uncompressed as well as ones that are compressed using lossless data compression such as FLAC, Windows Media Audio 9 Lossless and Apple Lossless ( ALAC ).

The rehearsals and recordings took place at Twickenham Film Studios ( 2 – 14 January ) and then at Apple ( 20 – 31 January ), with more than one hundred hours captured on film and the corresponding Nagra tape recorders used for the film's audio track.

Though the original blend sequences from the original album remained the same, Sasha and Digweed re-created the album using Apple G4 laptops in order to create, what they considered, a better quality version of the original mix, with recording techniques simply not available in 1994, as well as the advantage of crystal clear audio, and spatial separation of frequencies within the song, making it sound more dynamic.

* In 2005, the Federal Court of Appeal overruled a 2003 Copyright Board decision which had applied the blank media levy to MP3 players such as Apple Inc .' s iPod, on the basis that such devices did not qualify as " audio recording medium " as per the Copyright Act definition.

Apple announced on September 1, 2010 that their newest version of the Apple TV would support Motion JPEG ( M-JPEG ) up to 35 Mbit / s, 1280 by 720 pixels, 30 frames per second, audio in ulaw, PCM stereo audio in. avi file format.

Slot loading is the preferred loading mechanism for car audio head units, the Apple MacBook, Nintendo Wii, amongst other audio players.

They also started the OpenAL audio library project ( now being run by Creative Technology and Apple Inc .) and with id Software wrote GtkRadiant.

The computer's audio capabilities were given as the primary reason for record label Apple Corps's 1989 resumption of legal action against Apple that had been previously suspended.

Apple Corps claimed that the IIgs ' audio chip violated terms of the 1981 settlement with the company that prohibited Apple, Inc. from getting involved in the music business.

An easter egg ( activated by Command-Option-Control-N ) in ROM 3 lists the members of development team, and plays an audio clip of them shouting " Apple II!

Prior to the release of Apple DOS 3. 1, Apple users had to rely on audio cassette tapes for data storage and retrieval, but that method was notoriously slow, inconvenient and unreliable.

The original Beatles concert is heavily bootlegged on audio and video ; the first night's concert video was officially released by Apple in Japan only as Beatles Concert at Budokan 1966, and excerpts are shown in The Beatles Anthology, while the second Anthology album included the first show's performances of " Rock and Roll Music " and " She's A Woman ".