In the late 1970s, the Apple II had been a best seller for the home market.
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Or new accounts completely, like how the early Apple pursued schools with the Apple II.
Apple made the first successful personal computers in 1977, the Apple II, which sold in the millions.
From the groundbreaking Apple II to last year's iPad tablet computer, Mr Jobs is seen as a visionary.
The personal computers of 1981, including the Apple II and the IBM PC, were punks by today's standards.
Apple ignited the personal computer revolution with the Apple II, then reinvented the personal computer with the Macintosh.
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He showed that twenty years ago with the Apple II, and again a decade later with the Next computer.
The first glimpse came when the engineers at DEC saw the Apple II.
And it used the same exact font for its logo as Apple Computer did for the Apple II.
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Jobs and his partner Steve Wozniak put together the first small, cheap easy to use computer: the Apple II.
Maybe Jobs should have been picked the year the Apple II took off.
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When we shipped the Apple II, you had to think differently about computers.
At a glance you might mistake it for a toy--or, better yet, the Apple II computer, which sparked a revolution.
Mike Scott was the CEO of Apple from 1977, when the Apple II launched, to 1981 when Apple went IPO.
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The last technology that could be thought of as revolutionary, he says, was the Apple II personal computer introduced in 1977.
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Almost 30 years ago, using a series of networked Apple II computers, I started doing research and began writing about divergence analysis.
It was widely considered clunky, its BASIC outdated and graphics weak in comparison to the Apple II and Atari 800, according to McCracken.
Indeed, one striking departure (not pictured in this collection) was a 1977 spot introducing the Apple II that anticipated much later Apple ads.
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Back then it was called AppleLink, a project commissioned by Apple Computer and a company called Quantum Computer Services to connect Apple II and Macintosh computers.
When you wanted to play video games or use a word processor, you plugged your Apple II, Commodore, or Tandy computer into the television and went from there.
That this is a listing of all 485 TV commercials that Apple has ever made, in any and every market, all the way back to the Apple II.
Sculley said he was brought to Apple in 1983 to keep the Apple II, introduced in 1977, alive long enough to support development and marketing of the Mac.
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Jobs wanted the Apple II to be the first personal computer people used in their homes, so he sought inspiration for it in the kitchen appliance aisle at Macy's.
Sculley believed heavily promoting Macintosh meant its price could not be lowered and also required sales of the aging Apple II computer to remain strong for as long as possible.
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He says when he was 14 he got an Apple II, and he set up a bulletin board system, before CompUServe and AOL. He says he saw the power of sharing.
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"I see today's robot toys as predecessors to the future of the robotics industry just as my Apple II and Atari now seem like toys compared to computers today, " Trower says.
Apple Computer revolutionized the marketplace with the Apple II a little later, and by the time IBM decided to enter the market, there were already dozens of small firms make personal computers.
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Another early ad the next year for the much more mainstream Apple II pictured a woman preparing a meal, gazing adoringly at her mate working on the Apple computer on the kitchen table.
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Steve Jobs insisted, as he had done with the Apple II and later with the Macintosh, that the Apple III not contain a fan to dissipate the heat generated from its densely packed components.
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