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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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DOLLARS & SENSE-FOR FIRST MAC - IN ORIGINAL SHRINK WRAP
$4.99
CMU-800 Software for Apple ][+ or //e
$10.00
FRONT DESK - FOR FIRST MAC - IN ORIGINAL SHRINK WRAP
$4.99
Lot Of Vintage Apple 5 Inch Computer Floppys Over 200
$5.00
iPod POSTER Promo Ad Printed On Vinyl 46X60 XXL RARE
$29.99
512K Mac with mouse, keyboard, system floppy
$5.50
Macintosh Classic with Manual and Disks
$21.49
RAM - Memory Sticks for Vintage Mac - 3 lbs
$0.99
Genuine Apple II Apple // Super Serial Card With Docs
$0.99
50-Pin HD50-Centronics External SCSI Cable
$5.99
M5126 Macintosh Portable with Case manuals and disks
$26.00
Focus EtherLan AAUI RJ-45 transceiver - Mac
$2.50
RF Modulator for Apple II,II+,IIe connects to color TV
$0.99
Apple Macintosh Performa 6200CD Computer with Extras
$49.95
Apple II Applied Engineering RAMWORKS 1-3 Software set
$19.99
Excellent Idea Book on Using the Apple IIGS
$19.90
Original Macintosh Floppy Drive - Model 805-0961-A
$4.95
Vintage Apple Macintosh Powerbook 160 *Works GREAT!*
$199.00
Vintage Apple Macintosh Computer Rainbow Logo Stickers
$8.95
Macintosh Powerbook 180c VINTAGE...MINT condition!
$400.00
Perfomer II 16MHZ Accelerator board for SE or Classic
$98.00
Apple Newton MessagePad 120
$10.50
NEW Dragons/Eggs PC Speakers
$24.99
Apple Price List, June 1978, AppleHistory(tm)
$7.00
Macintosh Plus Brainstorm Accelerator, 200% Performance
$99.99
RARE Apple PowerCD with remote but no base
$7.50
Apple mounse controller card vintage
$0.25
VINTAGE QUICKEN FOR APPLE MAC IN ORIGINAL SHRINK WRAP
$4.99
Original Macintosh Floppy Drive - Model 805-5050-A
$4.95
Apple Logo Collectible Vintage Lapel Pin
$12.50
Vintage Apple MAC Powerbook 170 Laptop works great NR
$5.50
Working Mac G4 800mhz 512mb RAM, KB & mouse, NO RESERVE
$36.00
RARE BELL & HOWELL Apple II 2 , only 10,000 made!
$350.00
Apple II Plus, IIe, IIc DOS 3.3 System Master, 1983
$19.90
USB Xpress SCSI converter cable by Microtech
$0.99
Apple Special Delivery Software, Apple ///, AppHist(tm)
$20.00
Imagewriter II, color printer cartridge Apple (sealed)
$0.99
Radius VideoVision Studio User's Manual - Vintage Mac
$4.99
Vintage Apple Mac keyboard m/n: 658-4081 Made in Japan
$59.99
MACWORLD GUIDE TO SYSTEM 7.1 plus BONUS MAC 7.1 GUIDE
$4.50
Macintosh Color Classic Computer + Extras * Vintage
$46.00
Vintage Classic Compact Mac Canvas Carrying Case Black
$4.81
APPLE LaserWriter Select 310 User's Guide (legacy)
$2.50
APPLE PERFORMA 400 GETTING STARTED GUIDE - vintage
$2.50
APPLE II E PRO DOS MANUAL [2] & SUPPLEMENT [S]
$4.00
Broderbund Myst Game for Apple Power Macintosh Mac
$7.95
Large pile of System 7 stuff and some app floppies
$10.00
Vintage Apple External 5.25" floppy drive A9M0107
$12.97
Apple magazine Vol. 1 No. 2 1979, AppleHistory(tm)
$9.99
Vintage Apple II IIe PrinterMate Parallel InterfaceCard
$17.49
Unique Catalog of Apple Goods, AppHist(tm)
$20.00
Original Apple iPod Silhouettes 28"x22" Poster
$0.01
Vintage Mac Addict Magazines * 65 issues * 30 lbs
$0.99
Apple Computer color logo sticker vintage
$1.75
Original Apple iPod Silhouettes 28"x22" Poster
$8.81
Apple IIGS RGB Color Monitor Apple II GS Works Great!
$55.00
Rare new Apple IIe Platinum Keyboard (Extended IIe)
$69.99
iPod POSTER Promo Ad Printed VINYL SHARP COLORS 26X50
$29.99
VINTAGE APPLE 2GS LIMITED EDITION IN BOX WITH EXTRAS
$79.99
Vintage Macintosh™ Extended 'Beige" Keyboard 128k/512k
$79.99
3.5 Disk Superdrive Controller Card Apple IIe,IIgs
$456.00
Vintage Apple Mac PowerBook 145b Laptop No Reserve
$0.99
Vintage Apple Desktop Bus keyboard m/n: A9M0330
$24.99
HUGE APPLE IPOD TOUCH WALL MURAL/POSTER 6FT! RARE!
$32.00
New! CF-2.5" SCSI Converter KIT, CF PowerMonster
$99.00
Apple Super Serial card
$0.99
MACINTOSH UTILITIES USER'S GUIDE 1988 NEW(sealed)
$3.50
Apple Computer History Mouse Pad
$19.90
Macintosh User's Guide For Desktop Mac Computers - 1992
$3.00
Apple magazine Vol. 2 No. 1 1981, AppleHistory(tm)
$9.99
Apple IIe color monitor II for parts or repair A2M2056
$0.01
APPLE COMPUTER PARTS-EXCELLENT CONDITION
$15.95
Vintage Apple IIc computer, monitor and software
$199.00
System 7.0.1 Installation Set for Mac Powerbook 170
$0.99
BIG BUNCH OF SCSI ACCESSORIES AND CABLES-LOOK- COOL!!
$0.99
Macintosh User's Guide For PowerBook 145 - 1992 vintage
$4.00
The Macintosh Office magazine 1985, AppleHistory(tm)
$5.00
APPLE AIRPORT EXTREME BASE STATION
$20.00
TEACHER SUPPORT SEMANTIC MAPPER APPLE IIe
$1.99
Vintage 1988 QuarkStyle Software Macintosh Mint Sealed
$1.04
Macintosh plus with original keyboard, mouse, and case
$1.25
Farallon EtherMac iPrint Adapter SL
$1.99
Macintosh User's Guide For Performa Computers - VINTAGE
$3.50
Vintage OEM Macintosh™ 128K/512k Apple Logo Cord RARE!
$39.99
Vintage Apple Lisa 1 Computer Owner's Guide/Manual 1983
$399.99
VERY EARLY Apple II catalog 1978, AppleHistory(tm)
$20.50
64K RAM Chip Kit for Apple II, Tandy & Vintage PC
$4.95
Echo II speech card for Apple II,II+,IIe,IIgs 60-056-03
$6.50
Vintage MacWorld Magazines * 20 Issues* 8 lbs
$0.99
T-Shirt Apple Macintosh Funny Black XL Great Quality!
$3.99
System 7.0 Installation Set + Tune-up for Macintosh
$0.99
1st 1984 Macintosh 128K Upgraded M0001 Complete
$699.00
Radius VideoVision User's Manual - Vintage Mac
$4.99
Vintage Mac Cables, Service Tech Notes Ports/Pinouts
$1.99
APPLE II 80 COLUMN CARD MANUALS FOUR [4] OF THEM
$4.99
APPLE IIe System with drive Boots up!
$39.99
"INCASE" Laptop case / bag for 12" iBook
$0.99
Apple II: Corvus Omninet Transporter Card
$19.90