At a glance you might mistake it for a toy--or, better yet, the Apple II computer, which sparked a revolution.
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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Apple ignited the personal computer revolution with the Apple II, then reinvented the personal computer with the Macintosh.
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Jobs and his partner Steve Wozniak put together the first small, cheap easy to use computer: the Apple II.
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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And it used the same exact font for its logo as Apple Computer did for the Apple II.
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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.
On January 11, 2011, Hotz was playing Age of Empires II on his computer in New Jersey when he received an e-mail from Sony announcing a lawsuit against him.
There was a demo that involved playing strategy game StarCraft II on a desktop computer.
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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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Last year he launched a petition on the No 10 website calling on the government to make a posthumous apology to World War II code-breaker and computer pioneer Alan Turing for his treatment by the authorities for being gay.
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.
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.
If yes, they needn't worry about the cancellation of the Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System (known as Capps II).
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The development of the modern computer was in no small part accelerated by World War II.
From the groundbreaking Apple II to last year's iPad tablet computer, Mr Jobs is seen as a visionary.
World War II gave us not only the digital electronic computer, but also, thanks to radar and microwave technology, modern telecommunications.
He showed that twenty years ago with the Apple II, and again a decade later with the Next computer.
There is also a letter written to his mother in 1975 telling her for the very first time about his "vital importance to the outcome of World War II" and his contribution to the development of the modern computer.
Mr Turing worked as part of the team which cracked the Enigma code at Bletchley Park in World War II and went on to help create the world's first modern computer, the Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine.
He's typed a hundred thousand names into a computer program, creating a list of every Naval, Marine and Coast Guard death during World War II.
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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