August 12, 2021, marked the 40th anniversary of the birth of the IBM PC. The original Apple I and II were the brainchild of Steve Wozniak, who created the Apple I because he could not afford the ...

It ceased production in November 1993. The Apple II, in its various forms, had survived for 16 years. It had weathered IBM launching the IBM PC, it had easily weathered Apple launching the Lisa ...

but with the rise in the late 1970s of "microcomputers" such as the Apple II and Tandy TRS-80, IBM set out to make a desktop computer system designed for an individual. While the PC was not the ...

The Apple II “home” ad came with a facing page describing ... when it jump-started sales with the introduction of its much-copied IBM PC. But in the late ‘70s, it made the same strides ...

These computers, which include 1977’s Apple II, 1980’s Commodore VIC-20, 1981’s IBM PC, were extremely popular at the time of their release. The Commodore 64, which was released in 1982 ...

I did a computer mapping project, the program a stack of IBM punchcards ... the Exidy Sorcerer and the Apple II. At first I stuck to Z80 computers and decided to buy the Exidy – but failed ...

The 2024 Apple Mac Mini is not perfect though, with its biggest bugbear being the puny 256GB storage the entry level model comes from; I can live with that. Like the original IBM PC, it has hit a ...

introduced the Apple II in 1977, recognized as the start of the PC revolution. In this milieu, the market was at first hungry for a PC from a known quantity like IBM. But despite the $1 billion in ...

The Apple II “home” ad came with a facing page describing ... when it jump-started sales with the introduction of its much-copied IBM PC. But in the late ‘70s, it made the same strides ...

And unlike any machine before it, the Apple II wasn't a “kit”—a computer the customer had to assemble herself from purchased parts. Here was a machine you could set up in moments ...