1977 APPLE

1977 Apple II OS Woz integer Basic in Rom inside

1977 Apple II OS December, 1976, Woz and Randy Wigginton demonstrate the first prototype Apple II at a Homebrew Computer Club meeting.

Their first product, the Apple I computer, was similar to the Altair 8800, the first commercially available personal computer, except it had no provision for internal expansion

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March 1977 Apple Computer moves from Jobs' garage to an office in Cupertino

In April Apple Computer delivers its first Apple II system for $1295. The CPU was MOS 6502, working at 1.0 MHz. RAM was from 4K min, up to 48K max. Display supported 2 modes: 280X192 graphics and 40X24 text, 6 colors maximum. I/O ports were composite video output and cassette interface. There were 8 internal expansion slots. An external 143K floppy was offered in 1978.