Category: Apple II family

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It superseded Integer BASIC and was the BASIC in ROM in all Apple II series computers after the original Apple II model.

Apple employees, including Randy Wigginton, adapted Microsoft's interpreter for the Apple II and added several features.

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.

It is this latter version, which has some syntax differences from the first as well as support for the Apple II high-resolution graphics modes, that most people mean by the term " Applesoft.

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 existed for mixing text and graphics, except for the limited " hardware split screen " of the Apple II ( four lines of text at the bottom of the screen ).

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.

Category: Apple II software

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.

Adaptors for Apple II and Apple III were also announced.

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.

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

The 1977 Apple II, shown here with two Disk II floppy disk drives and a 1980s-era Apple Monitor II.

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.

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.

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

Apple Business BASIC shipped with the Apple /// computer.

After the release of the Apple Lisa computer in January 1983, Apple invested considerable effort in the development of a local area networking ( LAN ) system for the machines.

Through this period, Apple was deep in development of the Macintosh computer.

Apple solved this problem using an AppleBus-like solution, using a single port on the back of the computer into which the user could plug an adaptor for any given cabling system.

So they decided to designed a TRS-80 and CP / M software compatible computer system, which ( following the lead of Apple Computer ) they decided to name after a " typical Dutch flower ".

* 1950 – Steve Wozniak, American computer scientist and programmer, co-founded Apple Inc.

An Apple II computer with an external modem

However, as the system was reaching completion, the personal computer revolution was starting with the release of machines like the Commodore PET, TRS-80 and Apple II.

Soon after, BBS software was being written for all of the major home computer systems of the late 1970s era-the Apple II, Atari, Commodore and TRS-80 being some of the most popular.

Digital Ocean, Inc. an OEM licensee of the Apple Newton, offered the Seahorse product, which integrated the Newton handheld computer, an AMPS / CDPD handset / modem along with a web browser in 1996, winning the CTIA's hardware product of the year award as a smartphone, arguably the world's first.

However, the battle was in vain, as neither platform captured a significant share of the world computer market and only the Apple Macintosh would survive the industry-wide shift to Microsoft Windows running on PC clones.

The Apple I went on sale in July 1976 at a price of, because Wozniak " liked repeating digits " and because they originally sold it to a local shop for $ 500 plus a one-third markup.

* Apple I project on www. sbprojects. com

This FriendlyNet system was based on the industry-standard Attachment Unit Interface, but deliberately chose a non-standard connector that was smaller and easier to use, which they called " Apple AUI ", or AAUI.

In 1988 Apple had released MacTCP, a system that allowed the Mac to support TCP / IP on machines with suitable Ethernet hardware.

As the world quickly moved to IP for both LAN and WAN uses, Apple was faced with maintaining two increasingly outdated code bases on an ever-wider group of machines as well as the introduction of the PowerPC based machines.

As Apple abandoned many of these product categories, and all new systems were based on IP, AppleTalk became less and less common.

The second incarnation was a much smaller unit the width of two 5¼ " floppy drives stacked on top of each other, and the third incarnation looked like a flattened Apple with a built-in keyboard.

On January 26, 2009, MTV and Apple made all three collections available on the iTunes Store.

There were several GUI-based BBSes on the Apple Macintosh platform, including TeleFinder and FirstClass, but these remained widely used only in the Mac market.

* The Intel versions of Mac OS X from versions 10. 4 ( Tiger ) to 10. 6 ( Snow Leopard ) have Rosetta, a binary translation program that allows applications meant for use on PowerPC Macs to run on Apple systems that use Intel processors.

Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani in 1997 signed legislation designating the southwest corner of West 54th Street and Broadway, the corner on which John J. Fitz Gerald lived from 1934 to 1963, as " Big Apple Corner.

* The Big Apple Detailed research findings on the term's history from amateur etymologist Barry Popik

Initially designed to run on AT & T Hobbit-based hardware, BeOS was later modified to run on PowerPC-based processors: first Be's own systems, later Apple Inc .' s PowerPC Reference Platform and Common Hardware Reference Platform, with the hope that Apple would purchase or license BeOS as a replacement for its then aging Mac OS.

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