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Apple Computers & Components

Vintage Apple

Vintage Apple Article

The Macintosh project started in the late 1970s with Jef Raskin, an Apple employee, who envisioned an easy-to-use, low-cost computer for the average consumer. In September 1979, Raskin was authorized to start hiring for the project, and he began to look for an engineer who could put together a prototype. Bill Atkinson, a member of Apple's Lisa team (which was developing a similar but higher-end computer), introduced him to Burrell Smith, a service technician who had been hired earlier that year as Apple employee #282. Over the years, Raskin assembled a large development team that designed and built the original Macintosh hardware and software; besides Raskin, Atkinson and Smith, the team included Chris Espinosa, Joanna Hoffman, George Crow, Jerry Manock, Susan Kare, Andy Hertzfeld and Daniel Kottke.

Smith.s first Macintosh board was built to Raskin.s design specifications: it had 64 kilobytes (KiB) of RAM, used the Motorola 6809E microprocessor, and was capable of supporting a 256×56 pixel black-and-white bitmap display. (The final product used a 9-inch, 512x342 monochrome display.) Bud Tribble, a Macintosh programmer, was interested in running the Lisa.s graphical programs on the Macintosh, and asked Smith whether he could incorporate the Lisa.s Motorola 68000 microprocessor into the Mac while still keeping the production cost down. By December 1980, Smith had succeeded in designing a board that not only used the 68000, but bumped its speed from 5 to 8 megahertz (MHz); this board also had the capacity to support a 384×56 bitmap display. Smith.s design used fewer RAM chips than the Lisa, which made production of the board significantly more cost-efficient. The final Mac design was self-contained and had far more programming code in ROM than most other computers; it had 128 KiB of RAM, in the form of sixteen, 64 kilobit (Kb) RAM chips soldered to the logicboard. Though there were no memory slots, its RAM was expandable to 512 KiB by means of soldering sixteen 256 Kib RAM chips in place of the factory-installed chips.

The innovative design caught the attention of Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple. Realizing that the Macintosh was more marketable than the Lisa, he began to focus his attention on the project. Raskin finally left the Macintosh project in 1981 over a personality conflict with Jobs, and the final Macintosh design is said to be closer to Jobs. ideas than Raskin.s. After hearing of the pioneering GUI technology being developed at Xerox PARC, Jobs negotiated a visit to see the Xerox Alto computer and Smalltalk development tools in exchange for Apple stock options. The Lisa and Macintosh user interfaces were partially influenced by technology seen at Xerox PARC and were combined with the Macintosh group's own ideas. Jobs also commissioned industrial designer Hartmut Esslinger to work on the Macintosh line, resulting in the "Snow White" design language; although it came too late for the earliest Macs, it was implemented in most other mid- to late-1980s Apple computers. However, Jobs.s leadership at the Macintosh project was short-lived; after an internal power struggle with new CEO John Sculley, Jobs was fired from Apple in 1985, went on to found NeXT, another computer company, and did not return until 1997. CEO John Sculley raised the price from US$1,995 to US$2,495 to pay for a massive marketing campaign.

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Farallon EtherWave Ethernet Adapter Transceiver for Mac

$1.00
Apple II MICROSOFT SOFTCARD Z-80 CP/M Card II+ +

$32.85
Apple Macintosh System 7 software NEW!!!

$5.35
Vintage Rare Apple Mouse Pad -- COOL!

$9.99
Apple eMate 300 Newton PDA

$9.99
Apple Orchard mag by Int'l Apple Core, 1981 4 issues

$9.99
Vintage Apple Computer Sticker Lot

$7.99
Apple II M&R SUP'R' TERMINAL 80-Column Video Card II+ +

$9.99
VINTAGE APPLE COMPUTER RAINBOW LOGO WINDOW SHIELD

$42.00
DILBERT @ APPLE COMPUTER HQ,Animation Cel, Pre-Ipod,WoW

$24.95
Apple IIc computer Good condition Untested

$16.50
APPLE IIe ORIGINAL OWNER'S MANUAL

$14.99
Lot of 3 Apple PowerBooks 150 170 180 for Parts/Repair

$0.99
MARBLES APPLE LOGO MARBLES NEW with cool STANDS L@@K

$9.99
Genuine Apple II Computer 5.25" Disk II Controller Card

$6.50
Apple II Computer Monitor Stand II+ IIe Plus E III

$10.50
Call -A.P.P.L.E. magazine 1982, 6 issues

$9.99
Apple II GS ROM 01, 4MB RAM, 256MB CFFA HDD, LOADED

$186.00
Complete NeXTStation Turbo Color w/Laser Printer

$400.00
Apple 3.5" Disk Drive - Model A9M0106

$1.99
Vintage Apple Computer Rainbow Logo sheet (2)

$0.99
Apple Orchard mag by Int'l Apple Core, 1980 & '84 3 iss

$9.99
Apple Classic Pins (4) - iMac, Airport, iBook and OS 9

$6.25
Apple Rainbow Sticker Sheets - 30 sheets of 2 stickers

$11.05
Apple II SUPER JOYSTICK TR-84 Arcade-Style Joystick II+

$62.00
Apple Orchard mag by Int'l Apple Core, 1983 4 issues

$9.99
Aldus PrePrint 1.51 NEW Retail Box For Apple Macintosh

$0.99
MICRO 6502 Journal issues 1980, 5 issues

$9.99
NEWTON APPLE EMATE 300 LAPTOP POWER ADAPTER SUPPLY

$14.99
1989 APPLE COMPUTER DESKTOP MEDIA SELLING GUIDE

$4.99
Apple PowerBook 100 Series Laptop Computer AC Adapter

$9.95
Apple II MICROSOFT 16K RAMCard Expansion Card II+ +

$4.99
APPLE II, Apple Macintosh 2 - T-shirt BLACK L large

$8.95
Apple II e - Practical Peripherals Printerface Card

$0.99
Apple eMate 300 Newton PDA

$10.50
AppleDesign Keyboard ADB Macintosh Mac

$1.00
VINTAGE APPLE COMPUTER MACINTOSH TRAINER'S GUIDE

$4.99
Apple II e - Apricorn Parallel Printer Interface

$0.99
T-Shirt Apple Macintosh Funny Black XXL Great Quality!

$4.99
APPLE WRITER II WORD PROCESSING LANGUAGE MANUAL

$9.99
bass avenger

$0.99
Apple Computer Software 1983 by Stanton and Wells

$5.00
Apple Extended Keyboard II ADB Macintosh Mac

$1.00
Working Apple IIe Computer with Printer and MANY Extras

$27.73
'84 APPLE COMPUTER LISA 7/7 PROD. INTRO STUDENT GUIDE2

$4.99
Apple 20th Anniversary brochure, AppleHistory(tm)

$15.50
Apple II GS Color RGB Monitor with Cable

$127.50
Vintage Apple II SUPER SERIAL CARD w/Box II/II+/IIe + e

$9.99
VINTAGE APPLE COMPUTER MAC & LISA PRODUCT INFO BOX

$4.99
Call -A.P.P.L.E. magazine 1983 November

$3.00
Apple IIGS computer with memory card

$20.68
Next Computer Virtuoso Software

$150.00
Apple Mac OS 8.5 XL T-Shirt Mint (Never Worn)

$1.00
'84 APPLE COMPUTER LISA 7/7 PRODUCT INTRO LEADER GUIDE

$5.50
Apple Mac Logo sticker decal sheets (2)

$4.00
APPLE GAMES GALLERY BOOK AND DISK OF SOFTWARE GAMES

$15.99
PROGRAMMER'S REFERENCE FOR MANUAL SYSTEM 6.0 APPLE IIGS

$22.00
T-Shirt Apple Macintosh Funny Black Large Great Quality

$3.99
Apple II ECHO IIb Speech Synthesizer for II+/IIe/IIgs

$12.50
APPLE COMPUTER LASERWRITER/LW PLUS BOX W/CONTENTS

$4.99
Apple II e - (4) I/O Controller cards

$6.05
APPLE II+ A2S1048 Vintage Computer II Plus + EXCELLENT

$122.50
Apple Orchard mag by Int'l Apple Core, 1982 5 issues

$9.99
Call -A.P.P.L.E. magazine 1981 Full Year, Excellent

$9.99
Apple II 16K RAMCard Language Expansion Card II+ +

$4.99
Vintage Apple IIe Computer Lid / Top Cover !!!

$5.95
BEYOND ZORK Infocom Macintosh 1987 + VERY RARE +

$0.99
Call -A.P.P.L.E. magazine 1983, 7 issues

$9.99
Apple II NOC BAL500 EPROM Programmer bal 500 burner IIe

$31.00
Apple II VIDEX VIDEOTERM 80-Column Video Card II+ +

$12.49
VINTAGE AQUA iMAC G3 / OS 8.5– GREAT SHAPE!!

$50.00
Original ©1994 Apple Macintosh System Software Manual

$5.99
Very Early Model APPLE II+ Vintage Computer II Plus +

$49.95
VINTAGE APPLE COMPUTER PORTFOLIO & 1986 EXEC BRIEF PAD

$4.99
T-Shirt Apple Macintosh Funny Black XXXL 3XL Great Qlty

$5.99
Apple Color OneScanner 600/27 Flatbed Scanner w/ Cords

$9.99
Apple Pen Holder (Desk Accessories)

$5.50
Vintage Apple 6 Color, Rainbow Logo Static Clings 100pk

$39.00
Call -A.P.P.L.E. magazine 1983 March

$3.00
Vintage Apple II Computer Clone GOLDEN II II+/IIe + e

$24.95
'84 APPLE COMPUTER LISA 7/7 PROD. INTRO STUDENT GUIDE

$4.99
Call -A.P.P.L.E. magazine 1981 Oct.

$3.00
Call -A.P.P.L.E. magazine 1979-80, 4 issues

$9.99
VINTAGE APPLE COMPUTER MACINTOSH IN-BOX MATERIALS

$66.00
Apple Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar Poster (Wildly Innovative)

$1.00
Apple IIgs Computer Complete w/RGB Monitor II gs IIe e

$610.00
T-Shirt Apple Macintosh Funny Black Medium Great Qlty.

$3.99
` Vintage Apple Laptop Carrying Case

$9.99
Apple Multiple Scan 1705 Display User's Guide 5 languag

$6.99
Macintosh Reference, SE/30 Special Features Book

$5.00
1986 APPLE COMPUTER COMPUTER CLUBS INTERNATIONAL BOOK

$4.99
Mac SE/30

$19.99
Maccon high performance ethernet card for Macintosh LC

$9.99
Apple iPod Live Launch Event Poster - 5.2.03

$2.25
Apple II DuoDisk 5.25" dual floppy drive

$15.50
Apple Pens (2) in Shrinkwrap

$3.25
*Think Different Poster Kermit the Frog and Jim Henson

$25.00
Lot of 2 Apple II 5.25" Disk ][ Drives TESTED iie + e

$38.00
The Macintosh Bible 2nd Edition Arthur Naiman ©1988-89

$5.99