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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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VINTAGE APPLE IIC COMPUTER CHAMPIONSHIP GOLF GAME
$3.99
Apple128K IIe/IIc Softwr-Pinpoint Appleworks Add-ons
$15.99
Apple Personal Modem 300/1200 A9M0334 in box
$15.00
vintage video professor PAGEMAKER MacIntosh 2VHS 1988
$0.99
Dichotomous Key to Pond Microlife - EduTech - Apple II
$31.01
VINTAGE APPLE IIC COMPUTER HOLLYWOOD SQUARES GAME
$3.99
Vintage APPLE MAC Mousepad
$20.00
Apple Macintosh AppleDesign Keyboard + Mouse II + Modem
$10.99
Apple Newton MessagePad 100, 120, 2000 + accessories
$142.50
Vintage Microsoft Word Version 5.0 for Macintosh
$9.99
*RARE* iMac Yin Yang Poster from MacWorld 2000
$7.50
Portable Lap Notebook Computer Table Laptop Desk Stand
$30.09
Apple128K IIe/IIc Software-Reportworks for AppleWorks
$9.99
RARE Apple MacIntosh PROFESSIONAL SOLUTIONS News letter
$5.99
VINTAGE APPLE IIC COMPUTER WHEEL OF FORTUNE GAME
$3.99
VINTAGE APPLE IIC COLOR MONITOR
$9.99
Vintge Apple Computer Visicalc spreadsheet diskette
$10.00
Apple ADB Mouse II (probably from a Centris 610)
$0.99
Apple 3400C PowerBook Laptop 3400 Series
$19.99
APPLE II, Apple Macintosh 2 - T-shirt BLACK L large
$8.95
Vintage Apple Mac-Hypercard 2.0, manuals+ add'l book-NR
$5.99
VINTAGE APPLE IIC COMPUTER SOFTWARE FOOTBALL GAME
$2.99
1991 Norton Utilities Emergency Disc 3190
$3.99
Vintage Apple Stickers
$11.80
2 Apple 8pin DIN serial cables
$0.99
Story Maker - Scholastic - for Apple II+,IIe, IIc
$3.00
Paintworks Gold - Activision - Apple IIgs 3.5" Disks
$3.00
Apple IIc or //c
$5.99
Vintage MacUser back issues
$4.99
Apple Lisa 2 Mac XL - Rare and Vintage - Worldwide S/H
$338.51
Life Sciences Volume 1 - Graphic Images - Apple IIgs
$15.50
VINTAGE APPLE IIC COMPUTER GREAT CHESS PROBLEMS GAME
$3.99
Now Startup Manager v7.0-Mac System Utility-NR
$1.99
Apple128K IIe/IIc/IIGS Sftwr-Pinpoint InfoMerge
$19.99
New Apple "T" Shirt
$10.00
NOS Apple Mouse Interface Card
$10.50
Apple Imagewriter II printer
$5.00
MacroWorks - Beagle Bros - for Apple IIc or 128K IIe
$3.00
2 Apple Stickers - White
$4.25
1989 Altsys Art Importer (2) MAC Install Discs 3187
$1.99
Apple128K IIe/IIc Software-AutoWorks for AppleWorks
$9.99
Apple Newton MessagePad Logo Mailing Envelope Black
$12.99
IIGS Apple Kangaroo Default Folder + multi-utility
$8.95
VINTAGE APPLE IMAGEWRITER II
$9.99
Plant & Animal Cells - Ventura Educational - Apple II
$3.00
VINTAGE APPLE IIC COMPUTER SOFTWARE FAMILY FEUD GAME
$3.99
Apple IIe , dual floppy, color Monitor , few loose keys
$99.99
Hands-On Math Volume 3 - Ventura Educational - Apple II
$3.00
Next Computer Nextworld magazines
$45.00
Apple Platinum Joystick IIe, IIc, IIgs for repair
$0.99
RARE 1986 APPLE COMPUTER 2nd Quarter Report
$8.99
Apple USB Mouse "Hockey Puck" from a Sawtooth G4-450
$0.99
Apple128K IIe/IIc/III Software-HabaMerge
$4.99
Apple128K IIe/IIc Software-The Sensible Speller
$9.99
Extra K Extended Memory Utility for Apple IIc or IIe
$3.00
Draw Plus - Activision - Apple IIgs 3.5" Disks
$15.50
VINTAGE APPLE IIC COMPUTER SCRABBLE GAME
$2.99
Apple round microphone (from a Centris 610)
$0.99
Rare Apple Yum Button
$4.50
Asante Friendlynet AAUI Ethernet Connector
$0.99
I Pod POSTER Promo Ad Printed VINYL SHARP COLORS 37x77
$29.99
Apple ImageWriter II Color Ribbon
$1.45
Apple Glass Beer Stein
$6.50
Fastnet phonenet 8 pin DIN to RJ45 Ethernet box (Apple)
$0.99
Apple ADB mouse (maybe from a Mac II cx)
$0.99
SIMM Expander Card for Mac II Series
$12.99
Vintage Mac-Softkey Fonts Pro-121 Int'l Typefaces -NR
$2.99
1990 Fractal Attraction Generator (1) MAC Disc 3188
$1.99
VINTAGE APPLE IIC COMPUTER CRIME STOPPER GAME
$3.99
ULTRATERM VIDEO DISPLAY CARD ORIGINAL MANUAL-APPLE II
$9.99
Apple Newton MessagePad MP 130 LCD New Lot of 2
$19.95
VINTAGE IIFX COMPUTER
$100.01
The Music Studio - Activision - Apple IIgs 3.5" Disks
$3.00
Apple Vintage ORIGINAL Diskette Case w/ LOGO RARE
$4.99
Vintage Apple Mug
$7.63
Apple Computer Solid Glass Crystal Gift
$25.00
1991 System 7 Quicktime Hypercard (5) Mac Discs 3191
$4.99
RARE MICROSOFT POWERPOINT VERSION 3.0 ON FLOPPY DISKS
$49.99
256K RAM Chip Kit for Apple II, Tandy & Vintage PC
$5.95
BankStreet Filer-Speller-Mailer Software Set 4/Apple 2s
$6.00
VINTAGE APPLE IIC COMPUTER FINAL CONFLICT GAME
$3.99
NEW! Advanced LogicSystems 16K Language Card for II/II+
$15.00
Rare Apple Newton MessagePad Logo Mailing Envelope Red
$12.99
Apple SuperDrive 3.5" Floppy Drive - New Old Stock
$100.00
Macintosh Plus computer, 4MB RAM, New mouse, M0001A NR
$9.99
Help 1.0.5-Mac System Management Utility by Teknosys-NR
$1.99
Apple128K IIe/IIc/IIGS Sftwr-Pinpoint Toolkit
$14.99
Number Quest: Binary Search Games - Sunburst - Apple II
$3.00
NOS Apple 5.25 Floppy Controller Board
$4.99
Apple128K IIe/IIc Software-AutoWorks for AppleWorks
$4.99
*RARE* iMac Yum Poster
$7.50
Undercover PRO EZ set UP Canopy ALUMINUM 48 lbs W/Walls
$299.00
*RARE iMac Poster i think, therefore iMac MacWorld 1998
$7.50
Apple128K IIe/IIc/IIGS Sftwr-Pinpoint Desktop Add-on
$19.99
NOS Apple Super Serial Card II
$4.99
1989 Adobe Type Manager Reunion (2) MAC Discs 3189
$3.99
SECUREGUARD **RARE** FOR APPLE II & FRANKLIN
$7.99
Apple Computer Swiss Army Knife
$10.00