The History of

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• The History of
• Apple
• Computers

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Apple I

• Sold as a motherboard
• Not a whole computer by todays standards
• Homebrew Computer Club
• Needed 2 AC input voltages

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Apple II

• April 17, 1977
• West Coast Computer Faire
• Market Leader
• Cassette tape storage to 5 ½ floppy disk
• Visicalc spreadsheet software program

4
Apple III

• May 1980
• Many recalled due to omittion of the cooling
  fan
• Competed against IBM PC and MS-DOS

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Apple Lisa

• Based on Alto Computer
• First computer with a GUI
• Failed because of high price and because of
  limited software options

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Apple Macintosh

• Offered the LaserWriter printer
• Offered desktop publishing
• Offered advanced graphics
• Sold better than Lisa

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Apple Macintosh Portable

• Introduced in 1989
• Bulky and Large
• Very unsuccessful at time of introduction

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Apple PowerBook 100

• Sony created this from the specs of the Mac
  Portable and made it smaller
• 20 MB hard drive
• 9 in Passive Matrix Screen
• System 7 Mac OS

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Apple Quicktake Digital Camera

• Released in 1997
• One of the first digital cameras
• Very unsuccessful

10
Apple Power Macintosh Line

• Attempt to regain a position in the competitive
  computer market
• Used IBMs Power PC Processor
• OS rewritten so that older Macs could still run
  on these programs

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Apple iMac

• Great leap in sales for Apple
• Provided one of the best fiscal years since 1993
• Allowed for digital video
• Inspired iMovie and iDvd

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Apple iPod

• November 10, 2001
• Apples first digital audio player
• Introduced the itunes store to download
  compatable iPod music

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Apple MacBook Pro and New iMac

• January 10, 2006
• New notebook computer
• Four times faster than the powerbook models
• iMac with 2 or 3 times faster performance