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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 first Apple II, an 8-bit home computer and one of the first highly successful mass-produced microcomputer products, went on sale on June 5, 1977, after being introduced by Steve Jobs and Steve ...

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.

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.