Apple Computer (sekarang dikenal sebagai Apple, Inc) adalah kekuatan utama dalam revolusi Personal Computer (PC) yang berlangsung di tahun 1970-an dan’80s. Dan bahkan revolusi itu terus menerus berlangsung hingga kini berkat inovasi yang terus-menerus dilakukan oleh pihak pengembang Apple. Namun tahukah Anda, Apple pernah mengalami kebangkrutan, atau hal hal lain sepanjang karir gemilang Apple inc. ? Simak penelusuran kami berikut ini.

Steve Jobs Dengan Macbook Air –Nya
Sebelum Steve Wozniak bersama Steve Jobs mendirikan Apple,
Steve Wozniak adalah seorang hacker. Kepandaian Steve Wozniak ini
memang terlihat sejak dia masih kecil yang sangat gemar mengutak atik
aljabar dan algoritma matematika. Kemampuan Steve Wozniak ini tentunya
sangat berarti dalam mendongkrak hidupnya karena baik Steve Wozniak
maupun Steve Jobs semasa SMA-nya tergolong orang orang dengan ekonomi
menengah ke bawah.
The Altair 8800 computer kit (January 1975)
Pada
tahun 1975, Steve Wozniak bekerja di Hewlett-Packard dan membantu
teman-Nya Steve Jobs mendesain video game untuk Atari. Dari keuntungan
yang diperoleh, mereka menggunakannya untuk membeli
sebuah computer yang sangat sederhana, salah satu produk dari Call
Computer pimpinan Alex Kamradt untuk dipelajari mekanismenya. Setelah
melihat wacana mengenai membangun terminal
computer sendiri pada suatu majalah berjudul Popular Electronics
terbitan tahun 1975, double steve tersebut merakit sendiri komputer
dengan spare part yang ada. Computer Conversor
yang dirakit tersebut terdiri dari 24 baris dan 40 kolom, hanya
menggunakan huruf capital, menggunakan monitor berupa video teletype dan
dapat terhubung dengan Call Computer. Alex Kamradt menanggapi positif
hal ini dan bekerja sama dengan Steve Wozniak untuk menjual produk
jadinya melalui firma dagang yang dimiliki Kamradt.
Altair 8800 Computer dengan floppy disk berukuran 8 inch
Pada
tahun 1975, Wozniak mulai menghadiri pertemuan di Homebrew Computer
Club. Pada pertemuan tersebut Microcomputers baru seperti Altair 8800
dan IMSAI menginspirasinya untuk menggunakan mikroprosesor ke dalam
video teletype dan lengkaplah computer yang ia rancang.Pada saat itu hanya tersedia microcomputer CPU Intel 8080 senilai US $ 179 dan Motorola 6800 yang dibandrol US $ 170. Saat itu Wozniak berniat bekerja sama dengan Motorola, namun saat itu masih belum menemukan kata sepakat karena range harga yang diminta baik Intel maupun Motorola saat itu jauh dari range budget mereka. Namun Wozniak tak menyerah. Ia melihat, mempelajari dan mendesain skema computer pada kertas. Dalam benaknya, membuat CPU hanyalah tinggal menunggu hari saja.
Ketika MOS Technology 6502 chip (sekarang baterai CMOS) dirilis dengan kisaran harga US $ 20 pada tahun 1976, Wozniak membuat program yang sesuai untuk chip tersebut dengan bahasa BASIC dan mulai mendesain computer yang mampu menjalankannya. MOS 6502 didesain oleh orang yang sama dengan orang yang membuat Motorola 6800, karena banyak pekerja di Silicon Valley yang mendirikan atau membuat usaha sendiri sebagai sampingan.Wozniak melakukan sedikit perubahan kecil agar chip baru tersebut dapat berjalan dengan baik. Wozniak menyempurnakan penemuaanya dan membawanya ke pertemuan Homebrew Computer Club sebagai show off.
Pada pertemuan tersebut, Wozniak bertemu teman lamanya Steven Jobs yang sama-sama tertarik terhadap potensi komersial dari hobi computer tersebut.Setelah itu Jobs melakukan pendekatan dengan toko computer local, The Byte Shop yang pada akhirnya setuju untuk menjual produk Jobs. Namun dengan catatan, komputer yang dibuat harus dirakit dengan baik menjadi satu kesatuan utuh (assembled). Pemiliknya, Paul Terrell, menyampaikan bahwa ia akan memesan 50 mesin computer dan membayar US $ 500 pada setiap pengiriman. Jobs mengamini tawaran tersebut dan menghubungi Cramer Electronics, distributor peralatan elektronik skala nasional sebagai media partnernya. Inilah awal dirancangnya Apple I yang menjadi pondasi perkembangan produk-produk Apple

Logo Apple Computer pertama kali, dibuat oleh Ronald Wayne

Logo Apple ketika tahun 1976 dibuat oleh Rob Janoff dengan tema warna pelangi yang digunakan hingga 1998
APPLE I

APPLE II

THE APPLE III

Xerox PARC dan LISA
LISA
Dalam pakta kerja samanya Xerox memberika akses pada Apple untuk menggunakan fasilitas yang dimiliki oleh Xerox selama 3 hari sebagai kompensasi nilai tukar saham yang kala itu mencapai $ 1.000.000. Selama masa itu, para ilmuwan Apple mempelajari liku-liku dari GUI atau interface WIMP sehingga menghasilkan computer Apple yang pertama kali berbasis GUI dan diberi nama LISA (konon nama ini berasal dari putri pertama Steve Jobs yang merupakan kepanjangan dari Locally Integrated Software Architecture)
Hanya saja, Local Intregated Software Architecture atau LISA bisa dibilang sebagai produk gagal APPLE karena walaupun LISA sudah dilengkapi dengan mouse dan GUI (Graphical User Interface), LISA dibandrol dengan harga sangat mahal, sekitar $10,000 dan LISA tidak Compatible dengan produk sebelumnya yaitu Apple II sehingga gagal melakukan penetrasi pasar.
MAC 128k

MAC II

Macintosh Color Classic

Mac Portable

TAM (Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh)
TAM (Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh)iMac

Mac Mini

MacBook Air

dan masih banyak lagi inovasi dari apple seperti iPad dll…
English version :
Apple Computer (now known as Apple, Inc.) is a major force in the revolution of the Personal Computer (PC) which took place in the 1970's dan'80s. And even continuous revolution lasted until now thanks to the innovations that are constantly being made by the Apple developers. But you know, Apple never went bankrupt, or anything else along the glorious career of Apple inc. ? Check out our search below.
Steve Jobs with his Macbook Air

Before Steve Wozniak founded Apple with Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak was a hacker. Versatility Steve Wozniak is indeed seen since she was a child who is very fond of work especial algebra and mathematical algorithms. Steve Wozniak ability is certainly very significant in boosting his life because both Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs during his high school belonging to the people with lower-middle economy.
The Altair 8800 computer kit (January 1975)

In 1975, Steve Wozniak worked at Hewlett-Packard and helping his friend Steve Jobs design video games for Atari. From the profits, they use it to buy a computer that is very simple, one product of the leadership of Alex Kamradt Call Computer to study the mechanism. After seeing the discourse about building your own computer terminal at a magazine called Popular Electronics published in 1975, double steve is assemble your own computer with a spare part available. Computer Conversor which assembled consisted of 24 rows and 40 columns, using only capital letters, using a video monitor teletype and can connect with Call Computer. Alex Kamradt positive response to this and worked with Steve Wozniak to sell the finished product through a trading firm owned Kamradt.

Altair 8800 Computer with 8 inch floppy disk size
In 1975, Wozniak started attending meetings of the Homebrew Computer Club. At the meeting the new Microcomputers such as the Altair 8800 and IMSAI inspired him to use the microprocessor into the video teletype and complete computer that he designed.
At that time the only microcomputer CPUs Intel 8080 available valued at U.S. $ 179 and Motorola 6800 is priced at $ 170. At that Wozniak intends to work with Motorola, but it was still yet to find a deal because the asking price range both Intel and Motorola that time away from their budget range. But Wozniak did not give up. He saw, studying and designing computer scheme on paper. In his mind, making the CPU is only a matter of days.
When the MOS Technology 6502 chip (CMOS battery now) was released with a price range of U.S. $ 20 in 1976, Wozniak create the appropriate program for the chip with the BASIC language and began designing computer capable of running it. MOS 6502, designed by the same person who made the 6800, because many workers in Silicon Valley who set up or make their own business as sampingan.Wozniak do a bit of small change to the new chip can run well. Wozniak penemuaanya refine and bring to a meeting of the Homebrew Computer Club as a show off.
At the meeting, Wozniak met his old friend Steven Jobs who are equally interested in the commercial potential of the computer hobbyist Jobs tersebut.Setelah was approached by a local computer store, The Byte Shop, which in turn agreed to sell the products Jobs. But with the record, the computer must be made properly assembled into a unified whole (assembled). The owner, Paul Terrell, said that he would order 50 machines computers and pay U.S. $ 500 on each shipment. Jobs agrees the offer and to contact Cramer Electronics, a distributor of electronic equipment on a national scale as a media partner. This is the beginning designed the Apple I, which became the foundation of the development of Apple products
Apple Computer logo the first time, drawn by Ronald Wayne

When in 1976 the Apple logo created by Rob Janoff with the rainbow color theme that is used to 1998
APPLE I

The Apple I, also known as the Apple-1, an early personal computer and be regarded as the mastermind of pure or ancestor of all APPLE computers in the future. This computer was designed and built hand made by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs who had the idea of selling computers. The first Apple product was first shown to the public in April 1976 at the Homebrew Computer Club in Palo Alto, California and went on sale in July 1976 at a price of $ 666.66.
APPLE II

Unlike the case with the Apple I, which still uses wood as the casing, the Apple II has made up a different grade of material using a metal casing. Apple II was launched in April 1977, and is intended for personal needs. Apple II had supported graphics, BASIC language, Visical (with Excel as a window), and comes with the game Oregon Trail. Apple II is also equipped with twin floppy disk drives and monitors. The Apple II also features an integrated keyboard, sound, plastic cases, and eight internal expansion slots.
THE APPLE III

In the early 1980s, Apple Computer faces increasing competition from other companies. Main rival Apple Computer was Commodore. But it did not last long, after the computer manufacturer level mainframes, IBM, entering the market. Although the Apple II was declared ready platform for VisiCalc, the Apple III Apple still preparing to compete with the IBM PC version
Xerox PARC and LISA


In December 1979, Steve Jobs and Apple computer technician group toured Xerox PARC laboratory and in the presence of researchers from Xerox, they demonstrate a GUI (Graphic User Interface) on the Alto computer. At that time Steve Jobs realized the importance of the GUI in future computer instead of using text-based interface (eg, comparison of the command with the command prompt on the screen compared to the command window that is more convenient)
In cooperation pact Xerox to Apple about providing access to use facilities owned by Xerox for 3 days as compensation for the exchange of shares at that time totaled $ 1,000,000. During that time, Apple scientists studying the intricacies of the GUI or WIMP interface resulting in Apple's first computer-based GUI and named LISA (the name supposedly comes from Steve Jobs' first daughter is a continuation of Locally Integrated Software Architecture)
Only, Local Intregated Software Architecture or LISA can be regarded as a product fails APPLE because even though LISA is equipped with a mouse and a GUI (Graphical User Interface), LISA priced very expensive, around $ 10,000 and LISA are not compatible with previous products of the Apple II so that failed to penetrate the market.
128k MAC

Launched in 1984 and is able to break the dominance of IBM and DOS at the time.
MAC II

After 3 years since the success of the MAC 128k, re-launched in 1987 APPLE MAC II is added to the installation of Floppy Disk Slot (floppy) Disk and also use as data storage, in addition to the MAC II also supported 8-bit/256 Color Video
Macintosh Color Classic

The first Apple computer screen in color, is there Smiley its icon, and sound and contrast settings through the monitor screen.
Mac Portable

Released In 1989, the ancestors of this MacBook sells for less than $ 6.500, with a weight of 6kg is also equipped with a trackball (Trackpad) and equipped with a battery that can last for 10jam
TAM (Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh)

Got promoted through the film Batman & Robin, and already have a Sound Card and Remote Control
iMac

The legend says that the iMac is Apple can re-emerged from bankruptcy swept over her for 2 years
Mac Mini

One innovation of products that many people assessing a frenzy because it is produced without using Keyboard, Mouse and Monitor, released in 2005 at a price of $ 499
MacBook Air

Touted as the world's thinnest computer weighing only 1.5 kg, the front thickness of only 0.16 inch and 0.76 inch rear. Interestingly, the laptop casing is made from aluminum are easily recycled and its components are made from materials that are harmless.
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