It's the Apple II that made the company, kept it afloat, and even made it a cult success — but it was also the Apple II that Steve Jobs tried so hard to kill off with the Mac. It's the little ...

In high school, I learned very rudimentary computer-aided design using an Apple II in a drafting course. But I got my first chance to use a Mac in electronics and graphics design courses taught by ...

The Apple II started the boom in personal computer sales in the late 1970s, and pushed Apple into the lead among personal computer makers. The Apple II used a MOS 6502 chip for its central processing ...

Back in the dawn of the PC era, Commodore International rejected a proposal from legendary Apple Inc. founders Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs to resell the Apple II computer. Luckily for Apple, as ...

When we think of programmable hardware, we think of FPGAs. But they’re not the only option. [Oliver Schmidt] has been exploring how the Raspberry Pi Pico can serve in such a role for the clas… ...

In 1977 I decided to buy a computer. Microsoft and Apple were newly founded, the IBM PC was years away and there were no killer apps. It took over a year, but I had to have one and it changed my life.

So I cannot say that for me, the Apple II sparked a personal computer revolution, not personally. But it certainly did for others, and perhaps, over the last 30 years this month, created a new ...

Apple Computer, Inc. is close to releasing its "Motion" real-time motion graphics application, which was previewed at April's National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) conference, sources said.