Tom's Hardware does Apple tribute

[Lord Blackadder]

Sort of ironic considering how Tom's generally ignores Apple...but the times they are a changin'....

Link

Apple: the once and future king of microcomputing. Get ready for the Pirates of Silicon Valley 2: The Search for More Money (or is that something else? ).

 

[iPhil]

Sort of ironic considering how Tom's generally ignores Apple...but the times they are a changin'....

Link

Apple: the once and future king of microcomputing. Get ready for the Pirates of Silicon Valley 2: The Search for More Money (or is that something else? ).

Good story .. but i love this part:

At this time, three decades ago, a Hewlett-Packard employee and a guy he met one day at a meeting of the Homebrew Computer Club of Palo Alto, were cooking up a recipe for a self-contained PC board with 4K of RAM, interface connections, and a built-in Motorola 6502 CPU.

The Bolden part is mine

 

[lexfuzo]

that I may live to see that...
splendid!

 

[sushi]

Sort of ironic considering how Tom's generally ignores Apple...but the times they are a changin'....

Link

Apple: the once and future king of microcomputing. Get ready for the Pirates of Silicon Valley 2: The Search for More Money (or is that something else? ).

This may be a nice trip down memory lane!

 

[Lord Blackadder]

I thought it was a bit fawning, though accurate - which makes it even funnier when you think of the bad old days of the mid-late 90's - I'll bet no tech publication would have excpected Apple to make it to its 30th birthday with 8 billion in the bank!

It looks like this will be a good review of Apple history for those Mac newbies out there - Apple was a huge player in the PC market of the 80's.

 

[velocityg4]

I've been following this tribute. It's been quite interesting. Much of the history of Apple I am already familiar with. It is interesting reading the authors own experience with the Apple II since I was too young then to use them. Given that I wasn't born yet . I got on the bandwagon in 1993 but remember using IIe's in the 80's.
My family got it's first computer in 1987 I believe. Although it was an AST 286 10mhz, 640KB of RAM, and a 20MB Hard drive with CGA graphics. It ran DOS 3.3 and Windows 2.0.

 

[dmw007]

Yay Apple! Glad to see Tom's Hardware paying Apple some well deserved attention.

 

[Counterfit]

At least it's a group (?) that can do it right. I'm looking forward to reading the rest of this.

 

[Takumi]

interesting indeed

more good reads to come from tomshardware

Takumi

 

[sushi]

It looks like this will be a good review of Apple history for those Mac newbies out there - Apple was a huge player in the PC market of the 80's.

I remember being stationed in Korea in the early 80's and the rave was to get a Krapple.

Krapple was short for a Korean knock off of the Apple // computer. These knock offs of the Apple // were identical but for 1/3 to 1/2 of the cost.