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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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APPLE 5.25 Floppy Disk Drive Model A9M0107 SN KKT9245

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Apple Macintosh IIe PC Personal Computer System

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Power Supply Vintage Centris-Quadra 650, PM 7100 NEW!!!

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Apple Macintosh Plus 1Mb, and IT WORKS! No Reserve Mac

$12.50
GRAPPLER + PRINTER INTERFACE Centronics Parallel

$0.99
APPLE II RED BOOK - Original - 1978 Manual - RARE!

$21.50
Box of 10 Optima Brand Twiggy Disks for Apple Lisa 1

$59.99
Macintosh MAC Classic Computer System with Printer

$175.00
**APPLE POWER MACINTOSH 6100/60AV

$0.01
T-Shirt Apple Macintosh Funny Black Medium Great Qlty.

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Apple Dealer Software Collection 1985+ 3.5, 5.25, CD's

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Apple Macintosh Mac Plus 1MB M0001A Computer VINTAGE!

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Apple DVI to VGA Display Adapter

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**APPLE WORKGROUP SERVER 8150/110 **

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Huge Apple iPod Banner Poster 16" X 52" Nano

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APPLE NEWTON EMATE LAPTOP c/w Adapter & Stylus

$32.50
Apple Mac Red Logo Key Ring / Key Chain RARE!

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NIB Apple Newton 120 NOS. Vintage

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Apple HDI-20 RARE NIB Vintage Collectible NEW M8061 Wow

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TV Elite Scan Rate Converter

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Apple IIci Desktop Vintage - Cache Card & PhoneNet Card

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Apple Macintosh VINTAGE Mac Keyboard/Mouse M3501/M2706

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EARLIEST APPLE COMPUTER MACINTOSH PIN

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Apple II 80-Column Text Card Manual for IIe '82 Vintage

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Copy II Plus - Central Point Software - Apple II - 1981

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Apple DVI Female to DVI Male Adapter

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Apple Super Serial Card w/ Manual - Apple II - Complete

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APPLE COMPUTER LISA PIN - EARLY AND MINT!

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APPLE Disk II Floppy Disk Drive Model A2M0003 SN 206879

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Apple 20th Anniversary Mac - Never Used!

$1799.00
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Vintage PowerBook Duo Trackball Assembly Part# 661-1654

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

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Apple/Macintosh Performa 6116CD PowerPC M3076 VINTAGE

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TWO VINTAGE MACINTOSH KEYBOARD s

$33.00
Lot of three Apple Vintage Powerbook Laptops

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Apple Lisa / Macintosh XL - LisaProject (1984)

$129.99
Vintage Apple Logo Sheet - 4 Rainbow Decals/Stickers

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New MB277LL/A Apple 802.11n Wi-Fi 1TB Hard Drive PC MAC

$400.00
Apple IIe extended 80 col RGB combo card

$75.00
Original 1979 Apple II DOS 3.2 Disk - 13 Sector - NEW

$19.99
APPLE-WORKS FORUM VOLUME V, NO. 8, AUGUST 1990

$0.99
Vintage Apple Macintosh Performa 636CD Computer

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** (2) Apple QUADRA 700 COMPUTERS!!!**

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VINTAGE APPLE COMPUTER APPLE II APPLEWORKS PIN - MINT!

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Apple II 5.25" 5 1/4 External Floppy Disk Drive A9M0107

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Apple Power PC G3 M4405 Tower w/ keyboard NO RES

$0.99
Vintage Apple Computer Logo Stickers - 2 Small 2 Large?

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Rare Apple Computer Calculator "World's Thinnist" NEW!

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Apple USB Keyboard Entension cable 3'

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Parallels 3.0 for Mac

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Very RARE New Apple Computer "AUTHORIZED DEALER" Cup

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CLARIS RESOLVE SPREADSHEET for Vintage MACINTOSH-NEW!!!

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Apple II Peripherals Test Disk - Boots!

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Oo - Topos - Sentient Software Apple II - New & Sealed

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Apple II Stand A2M0260 - w/ Original Box!

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APPLE MAC QUICK TAKE 200 DIGITAL CAMERA with AC Adapter

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Apple Macintosh Quadra 700 Mac Computer VINTAGE! M5920

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Apple Imagewriter II - Printer

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VOYAGER EXPANDED BOOK (MAC): Bully for Brontosaurus

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Apple Peripherals - Language Card - 670-X006 (1979)

$99.99
Vintage Apple iie iic Joystick NIB NOS original box

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VINTAGE MAC OPERATING SYSTEM 75,UPDATE 2.0 ,8 CDS

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Rare Apple Mac Portable Traveling Case and ID tag

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VOYAGER EXPANDED BOOK (MAC): Complete Asimov Vol. 1

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CRUNCH (SPREADSHEET) FOR APPLE MACINTOSH (3.5" DISK)

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The Apple MacAdvocate CD-ROM - 1997 - Never Opened!

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Ray Dream Designer Version 4

$75.00
Rare Apple PowerCD , Complete

$19.50
Apple Computer 512K Model# M0001W Rare

$50.00
APPLE-WORKS FORUM VOLUME V, NO. 2 FEBRUARY 1990

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**LOT OF 4 NUBUS CARDS*** SCSI JACKHAMMER ETC ETC

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Apple III - Pascal - A3D0005 - Complete in Box (1981)

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Apple IIe Card Bundle Version 2.0 M044LL/B "New"

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Vintage Macintosh Repair Manuals 1984-2004!

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Lot 5 Apple T-Shirt- Size L XMAS GENIUS VIDEO EXERCISE

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Apple II Series Mirage-Quad Joystick / Mouse Interface

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Apple Macintosh GUIDE BOOK Vintage Computer Manual 128K

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Rare Daystar Genesis MP800 604e Quad Processor BeOS

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Large Grey Apple Computer Enthusiast T-Shirt

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T-Shirt Apple Macintosh Funny Black Large Great Quality

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Apple Newton Stylus - NEW !

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Apple Newton eMate 300 RAM Upgrade Rare NewerTech mod

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Apple Disk][ and SuperSerial Interface Cards

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PICO Floppy Disk Drive Model LDD-103SSA SN 137977

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T-Shirt Apple Macintosh Funny Black XXL Great Quality!

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Vintage Apple Macintosh or IIGS 800K Disk Drive A9M0106

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Apple IIe 80Col/64K 820-0067-D Memory Expansion Card

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Nibble mag Vol. 1 No. 1&2 for Apple II AppleHistory(tm)

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Vintage Apple Computer Logo Stickers - sheet of 4

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Apple IIE Enhanced w/ SuperSerial II and Disk][ card

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Farallon PhoneNET Mac to Printer Connect NEW Sealed

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Apple IIE 80 col/64K expansion card by Checkmate Tech.

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Apple Macintosh Apple IIGS A2S6000 Computer VINTAGE!

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