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APPLE 1 "Steve Wozniak", a member of Homebrew Computer Club, designed "APPLE 1". In 1976, with orders for 50 machines from the Byte Shop in Mountain View, in California, Apple Computer Inc. was born. The APPLE 1 used a MOS6502 CPU and came with 8K of RAM. It costed 666$, and only about 220 were produced. In 1970’s, Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) took two more giant step towards bringing computers into mainstream use with the introduction of its PDP-11 and VAX Computers. Thes models came in many sizes to meet different needs and budgets. Since then, the computers continue to shrink in size while provideing more power for less money.
	FROM 1971 TILL TODAY 1971 In 1971, Ðr, Ted Hoff put together all the elements of a computer processor on a single silicon chip slightly larger then 1 square inch. The results of his hight efforts was the INTEL 4004, the wolds first commercially available microprocessor. It sold for 200$ and contained 2,300 transistors. 1975 The "ALTAIR 880" was the first machine to be called a "personal computer". It had 64 KB of memory and an open 100 line bus struture. It sold for about 400$ in a kit to be assembled by the user. 1977 The APPLE II computer was unveiled. It came already assembled in a case with a built-in keyboard. Users had to plug in their own TVs for monitors. 1978 Intel released the 8086 16 BIT microprocessor, setting a new standard for power, capacity, and speed in microprocessors. The fist major micro computer built-in board, run by "Ward Christensen" and "Randy Seus", went online in Chicago, Illinois. Epson announced the MX-80 dot matrix printer coupling high performance with a relatively low price. 1979 Inter intoroduced the 8088 microprocessor, featuring 16 BIT internal architecture and an 8 BIT external bus. Motorola introduced the 68,000 chip, used in early Macintosh computers. 1980 Bell Laboratories invented the Bellmac 32 the first single chip micro-processor with 32 BIT internal architecture and a 32 BIT data bus.

	1981 IBM introduced the IBM PC, with a 4.77 Intel 8088 CPU, 16 KB of memory, a keyboard, a monitor, one or two 5.25 inch floppy drives and a price tage of 2,495$. 1983 Apple introduced the LISA, the first commercial computer with a purely graphical operating system and a mouse. The industry was excited, but its 10,000$ price discouraged buyers. IBM unveiled the IBM PC XT, essentially a PC with a hard disk and more memory. The XT was able to store programs and data on its built-in 10MB hard disk drive. The Compaq Portable was released, the first successful 100 percent compatible PC clone. Despite its 28 pounds it was the first computer to be lugged through airports. 1984 IBM shipped the PC AT, a 6MHz computer using the intel 80286 processor which set the standard for personal computers running DOS. 1985 Intel released the 80386 processor (also called 386) a 32 BIT processor with the capability to address more than 4 billion bytes of memory then times faster then the 80286. Microsoft released the Windows 1.0 operating system, which featured the first graphical user interface for PCs. 1986 IBM delivered the PC convertible. IBM’s first laptop computer and the first Intel based computer with a 3.5 inch floppy disk drive. Apple computer introduced the Macintosh Plus, with increased memory and the capacity to connect an external hard drive. 1987 IBM unveiled the new PS/2 line of computers featuring a 20 MHz 30386 processor at its top end. IBM introduced its video Graphics Array (VGA) monitor offering 256 colors at 320x200 resolution, and 16 colors at 640x840. 1988 Hewlett Packard introduced the first populare ink jet printer, the HP Deskjet. "Steve Job’s" new company, NEXT Inc. unveiled the NEXT computer featuring a 25 MHz Motorola 68030 processor. The NEXT was a pioneer computer introducing several "firsts" to the industry. It was the first conputer to use object oriented programming ni its operating system and an optical drive rather than a floppy drive. Apple introduced Apple CDSC, a CD ROM storage device allowing access upto 650 MB of data.

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