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Steve Wozniak's blue box at the Computer History Museum. ... Wozniak reduced the number of chips by 50, ... was a commercial failure and was discontinued in 1984 ...
The Apple III, released in November 1980 as the successor to Apple II, was the first Apple computer not designed by Steve Wozniak, but rather by a committee of engineers led by Steve Jobs. The Apple III was sold as a business computer and housed a 1.8 MHz Synertek 6502A or 6502B processor and 128 KB of dynamic RAM. [21]
The game was designed by Nolan Bushnell and Steve Bristow and prototyped via discrete logic chips by Steve Wozniak with assistance from Steve Jobs. In the game, eight rows of bricks line the top portion of the screen, and the player's goal is to destroy the bricks by repeatedly bouncing a ball off a paddle into them.
Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs expected hobbyists to purchase the Apple II; however, because of VisiCalc and Disk II, small businesses purchased 90% of the computers. [7] The Apple III was designed to be a business computer and successor.
Wozniak's earlier 6800 paper-computer needed only minor changes to run on the new chip. By March 1, 1976, Wozniak completed the machine and took it to a Homebrew Computer Club meeting to show it off. [16] When Jobs saw Wozniak's computer, which later became the Apple I, he was immediately interested in its commercial potential. [17]
Apple II ("apple two") is a series of microcomputers manufactured by Apple Computer, Inc. from 1977 to 1993. The first Apple II model, which gave the series its name, was designed by Steve Wozniak, and was first sold on June 10, 1977. [2]
When he demonstrated his computer at the Homebrew Computer Club, his friend and fellow club regular Steve Jobs was immediately interested in its commercial potential. [25] Wozniak intended to share schematics of the machine for free; however, Jobs advised him to start a business together and sell bare printed circuit boards for the computer.
Instead of storing 8–10 sectors (each holding 256 bytes of data) per track on a 5.25-inch floppy disk — something standard at that time, Wozniak utilized group-coded recording (GCR), and with 5-and-3 encoding he managed to squeeze as many as 13 sectors on each track using the same mechanics and the same storage medium.