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2011.10.16 @Apple I, price and performance,
200 produced
| Release date |
April 11, 1976 |
| Introductory price |
US$666.66 |
| Discontinued |
September 30, 1977 |
| Memory |
4 KB standard
expandable to 8 KB or 48 KB using expansion
cards |
| Graphics |
40~24 characters, hardware-implemented scrolling |
from year 1977 to year 1993.10 five million
sale
8 bit computer
The first Apple II computers went on sale
on June 5, 1977[8] with a MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor running at 1 MHz, 4 KB of RAM, an audio cassette interface for loading programs and storing
data, and the Integer BASIC programming language built into the ROMs. The video controller displayed 24 lines
by 40 columns of monochrome, upper-case-only
(the original character set matches ASCII
characters 0x20 to 0x5F) text on the screen,
with NTSC composite video output suitable for display on a TV monitor,
or on a regular TV set by way of a separate
RF modulator. The original retail price of the computer
was US$1298[9] (with 4 kB of RAM) and US$2638 (with
the maximum 48 kB of RAM). To reflect
the computer's character cell color graphics capability, the Apple logo on the casing
was represented using rainbow stripes,[10] which remained a part of Apple's corporate
logo until early 1998. The earliest Apple
II's were assembled in Silicon Valley, and later in Texas;[11] printed circuit boards were manufactured in Ireland and Singapore.
IBM-PC
| Release date |
August 12, 1981; 30 years ago (1981-08-12) |
| Discontinued |
April 2, 1987 |
Pricing for the IBM PC started at $1,565
for a bare-bones configuration without disk
drives.[11]