Why was the apple 1 invented?

Answer 1

Woz managed to pack a motherboard that had the computing power of a huge device - 6 x 8x 8 feet on a board 14 x 12 inches. Well, he did not have the access to the the mass storage devices - "DASD", but used a 5 1/5 "floppy disk (where PCs used 8"). Steve Jobs was a wizard in marketing and collected funds and holahoy enough to get people to buy it.

They were not unique in any other way, others such as Nokia made very good computers based on "CP/M" and aimed at commercial applications. Apple made a decision to support the academics, in what they considered to be best suited - the Motorola instruction set. Intel made anther decision, to make a chips that was simple to interface to and provided a instruction set tailored to simplify code.

Apple managed to sell to schools and academic institutions and made coding possible on a typewriter using a TV set as a screen. But also Europeans made CP/M devices, most famous is (Sir) Clive (Sinclaire) with his ZX80 and ZX81, which was Intel based (and Zilog). It was smaller than Apple II, and had BASIC in BIOS - and could use a regular cassette player as mass storage.

But Apple made the market, made technology for mass production of computers. By the focus on cheap computers to school they reached the classroom and allowed the classrooms to be used to teach about computers without the need to visit a local "Computer Center". The ZX and Commodore reached the home market, allowed individuals who could afford it, to play around at home.

The Apple II was a techie project, but when Apple attracted the key people from Xerox PARC to make the Lisa, Steve Jobs defined the strategy of "Graphical User Interface" and made the first "MacIntosh" based on this philosophy. Steve Jobs had to leave Apple a number of times, because he drove the company close to bankruptcy by lack of pragmatism. But he left and managed to get back and raise funds to make a new device, such as the Next. Sorry, Woz - your IIe was just another device, you provided good casing also for the peripherals, and configured a production line. But Steve Jobs created the holahoy that created the sales so bills could be paid and game writers could earn a living. The commercial side is important, and with Steve, computers were taken out of the laboratories, coding out of the garage - some of us had to take of the tie and drop COBOL and PL/1.

Answer 2

I guess 'The 2 Steves' just wanted to create a company... Maybe im not right... but i think im right

Answer 3

because it allowed people from distance to be able to speak to each other