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Apple and was
The Apple I was Apple's first product, and to finance its creation, Jobs sold his only means of transportation, a VW van and Wozniak sold his HP-65 calculator for $ 500.
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.
The Apple I's built-in computer terminal circuitry was distinctive.
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.
The high price was likely due to the rare documents and packaging offered in the sale in addition to the computer, including the original packaging ( with the return label showing Steve Jobs ' parents ' address, the original Apple Computer Inc ' headquarters ' being their garage ), a personally typed and signed letter from Jobs ( answering technical questions about the computer ), and the original invoice showing ' Steven ' as the salesman.
< li > On June 15, 2012, a working Apple I was sold at auction by Sotheby's for a record $ 374, 500, more than double the expected price .</ li >
A software-compatible clone of the Apple I ( Replica 1 ), produced using modern components, was released in 2003 at a price of around $ 200.
It was also a less expensive alternative to the Apple Macintosh and IBM PC as a general-purpose business or home computer.
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It superseded Integer BASIC and was the BASIC in ROM in all Apple II series computers after the original Apple II model.
Applesoft BASIC was supplied by Microsoft and its name is derived from the names of both Apple and Microsoft.
Applesoft II, which was made available on cassette and disk and in the ROM of the Apple II Plus and subsequent models, was released in 1978.
As Steve Wozniak, the creator of Integer BASIC and the only person who understood it well enough to add floating point features, was busy with the Disk II drive and controller and with Apple DOS, Apple turned to Microsoft, who was the BASIC vendor of choice after their success with Altair BASIC, and licensed a 10 KB assembly language version of BASIC dubbed " Applesoft.
No provision was added in the 128 kB Apple IIe and Apple IIc models ' BASIC interpreters for the new machines ' extra memory and double-resolution graphics, or for the Apple II's 16-color mode.
It seems likely that memory constraints were at the root of these differences, as the Apple II ROM had only 10 kilobytes available for the interpreter, and the improved hi-res graphics support was clearly a higher priority.
The Apple II disk operating system, known simply as DOS, thus intercepted all input typed at the BASIC command prompt to determine whether it was a DOS command.
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.

Apple and introduced
By 1987 Ethernet was clearly winning the standards battle over Token Ring, and in the middle of that year Apple introduced EtherTalk 1. 0 for the newly released Macintosh II computer.
The Apple II and TRS-80 each had two versions of BASIC, a smaller introductory version introduced with the initial releases of the machines and a more advanced version developed as interest in the platforms increased.
Apple introduced 2880 × 1800 with Retina MacBook Pro at 15 inches on June 12, 2012.
* 1984 – The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to popularize the computer mouse and the graphical user interface, is introduced during Super Bowl XVIII with its famous " 1984 " television commercial.
On January 24, 1984, Apple Computer Inc. ( now Apple Inc .) introduced the Macintosh personal computer, with the Macintosh 128K model, which came bundled with what was later renamed the Mac OS, but then known simply as the System Software.
Bill Atkinson, a member of the Apple Lisa team, introduced him to Burrell Smith, a service technician who was soon hired earlier that year.
The first pointing device gesture, the " drag ," was introduced by Apple to replace a dedicated " move " button on mice shipped with its Macintosh and Lisa computers.
In May 2011 Playboy introduced i. playboy. com, a complete, uncensored version of its near 700 issue archive, targeting the Apple iPad.
Apple introduced the Power Mac series of high-end personal computers aimed at businesses and creative professionals in 1994 with an advertising campaign consisting of several television commercials and print ads.
Apple introduced the PackBits format with the release of MacPaint on the Macintosh computer.
When attempting to increase processing power, Apple was hampered by the overheating problems of the 68040 ; this resulted in the 100-series PowerBook being stuck with the aging 68030 which could not compete with newer-generation Intel 80486-based PC laptops introduced in 1994.
For several years, new PowerBook and PowerBook Duo computers were introduced which featured incremental improvements, including color screens, but by mid-decade, most other companies had copied the majority of the PowerBook's features, and Apple was unable to regain their lead.
In 1992 Apple released a hybrid portable / desktop computer, the PowerBook Duo, continuing to streamline the subnotebook features introduced with the PowerBook 100.
Apple introduced two later G3 PowerBook models, similar in appearance ( curved, black plastic case with black rubberized sections ) but thinner, lighter and with revised internal systems.
Support for the 30-inch Apple Cinema display was also introduced in the new 17-inch model and was optional in the 15-inch model via a build-to-order upgrade to the computer's video hardware.
In June 1999 Apple also introduced a streaming media format in its QuickTime 4 application.
The Apple Pippin, a console introduced in 1995 had a trackball built into its gamepad as standard.
* January 24 – The Apple Macintosh is introduced.
Apple Inc .' s first computer, the Apple 1 introduced in 1976, featured PROM chips that eliminated the need for a front panel.
Apple also introduced speech recognition into its systems which provided a fluid command set.
The LaserWriter was a laser printer with built-in PostScript interpreter introduced by Apple in 1985.
At about the same time, Jonathan Seybold ( John W's son ) introduced Paul Brainerd to Apple, where he learned of Apple's laser printer efforts and saw the potential for a new program using the Mac's GUI to produce PostScript output for the new printer.
It also continued a departure from the beige color that characterized the Apple and Macintosh products to that time by using the same brighter, creamy off-white color first introduced with the Apple IIc and Apple Scribe Printer 8 months earlier.

Apple and music
* m4a – An audio-only MPEG-4 file, used by Apple for unprotected music downloaded from their iTunes Music Store.
* m4p – A version of AAC with proprietary Digital Rights Management developed by Apple for use in music downloaded from their iTunes Music Store.
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.
Most music software in MIDI's first decade was published for either the Apple or the Atari.
After 1987, IBM PC compatibles dominated both the home and business markets of commodity computers, with other notable alternative architectures being used in niche markets, like the Macintosh computers offered by Apple Inc. and used mainly for desktop publishing at the time, the aging 8-bit Commodore 64 which was selling for $ 150 by this time and became the world's best-selling computer, the 16-bit Commodore Amiga line used for television and video production and the 16-bit Atari ST used by the music industry.
The song's controversial Mark Romanek – directed music video — in which a scantily clad Apple appeared in a 1970s-era tract house — played on MTV.
The Apple IIe was used by several rock bands for album and music video graphics.
Apple's iTunes software can be used to transfer music to the devices from computers using certain versions of Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows operating systems.
Digital cameras, camcorders and organizers had well-established mainstream markets, but the company found existing digital music players " big and clunky or small and useless " with user interfaces that were " unbelievably awful ," so Apple decided to develop its own.
Barstow's main radio station is KDUC ( or " K-DUCK "), which plays adult contemporary music and also serves Victorville, Apple Valley, Hesperia and Ridgecrest, California.
The Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music, a classical chamber music group which attempts to bring members of cultures in conflict ( such as Israelis and Palestinians ) closer together through music, is also in Nelson.
Apple also prepared a specially-created music video of the Let It Be ... Naked release of the song to promote that album in 2003.
Les Fradkin has popularized The Beatles music catalog as guitar based Instrumental rock on the Apple iTunes music download service.
* Apple Jack, a French music fanzine
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 ).
He stated in his brief: " Apple has turned an open and interactive standard into an artifice that prevents consumers from using the portable hard drive digital music player of their choice.
" At the time Apple was stated to have an 80 % market share of digital music sales and a 90 % share of sales of new music players, which he claimed allowed Apple to horizontally leverage its dominant positions in both markets to lock consumers into its complementary offerings.
However, Apple charges consumers to have previously purchased DRM music restrictions removed.

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