Let’s take a trip back in time and review the evolution of a computer company. It’s not IBM or Microsoft. This company is Apple Computers, Incorporated.
In the year 1976, before most people even thought about buying a computer for their homes. Back then the computer community added up to a few brainy hobbyist. So when Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs sold a van and two programmable calculators for thirteen hundred dollars and started Apple Computers, Inc., in Jobs garage, the reach for success seemed far.
But these two young business men, Wozniak 26 years old and Jobs 21 years old, had a vision. "Computers aren’t for nerds anymore," they announced. "Computers are going to be the bicycle of the mind. Low cost computers for everyone."
From the first day on the founders of Apple kept their vision intact, and they spoke it at every turn. They only hired people into the company that had the same visions as they did.
In early 1976 Wozniak and Jobs finish work on a preassembled computer circuit board. It has no Product keyboard, case, sound or graphics. They call it the Apple I. They form the Apple Computer Company on April Fool’s Day and sold the Apple I board for $666.66 at the Home brew Compute
John C. Dvorak, "Time’s A-Wasting," MacUser, (December 1994), p. 222
2.) A new family of RISC microprocessors for PCs and entry-level workstations;
International Business Machines came on the PC scene in August of 1981 with the IBM Personal Computer. Apple greets its new competitor with a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal with a headline that reads, "Welcome IBM. Seriously." Apple’s first mass storage system was also introduced this year, the 5MB ProFile hard disk, priced at $3,499.
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