Apple II personal computer
Apple II, ordenador personal de consumo
- Date
- 1977 · confidence high
- Place
- Apple Computer, Cupertino, California, United States
- Credited to
- Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs
- People
- 👤 Stephen Wozniak1950–👤 Steve Jobs1955–2011
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
Complete computer with a case, keyboard, colour graphics and expansion slots, ready to use. Together with the Commodore PET and the TRS-80, it opened up computing to the home and small business.
What it led to
- Productivity software (VisiCalc) and computing in the office
- The computer games industry
- Apple's closed-platform business model
Built on
Made possible
- Electronic spreadsheet (VisiCalc)1979
- IBM Personal Computer1981
- Apple Macintosh1984
- Universal Serial Bus (USB)1996
- VisiCalc spreadsheet
- computer video games