Apple, The Other Computer That Changed The Galaxy

On April fools day - April 1 - 1976, the 2 Steves, Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs created a little nugget called Apple Computer. From the first 500 Apple I's through to the Macintosh of the mid 80's, Apple rocked the world of personal computing. Apples first real foot in the door was with business applications. Machines like the Amiga and Atari specialized in gaming, the Apple II was the A in Applications. Visicalc the first ever spreadsheet was released on the Apple IIe. Later on applications like Photoshop,  Pagemaker, Logic Audio gave it a distinctly professional market. This application centic nature also led to the education market which would become one of their main stays for many years. This first golden period also saw the release of first Apple II and the Macintosh and even though there were unable to speak to each other – no networking – they were brothers who shared the market until the early 90′s – 1993- when the Apple II was phased out.READ MORE