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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

You can see a 1979 photo of Jobs with an Apple II at the Computer History Museum's website. ... The Apple I was text-only, and lacked a graphics mode, color, and sprites for game creation.

Now that Apple sells over hundreds of millions of iPhones a year, it's easy to forget that it all began with two college ...

The company has kept the apple image ever since but dropped the rainbow stripes in 1998, when it launched its first iMac computer. At that time, the logo took on a monochromatic black look.

Nearly 40 years ago, the Apple Macintosh computer came out -- a revolutionary machine that changed computing forever. Now's as good a time as any to look back at what made the Macintosh 128K unique.

On 24 January 1984, the Apple Macintosh 128K personal computer was unveiled to the world, but 40 years later it still has a loyal following of fans – and users. David Blatner still has ...