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1980s Apple II computer, made by Apple Computer, Cupertino, California. The Apple series was affordable & commercially successful.
At the end of the Seventies, the only professional microcomputer was the Apple II. Connected to a dot-matrix printer and equipped with a spreadsheet, a word processor and a draft database, it allowed freelancers to carry out the basic tasks of what was already called office automation.
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A la fin des années soixante-dix, le seul micro ordinateur à vocation professionnelle était l’Apple II. Connecté à une imprimante matricielle et doté d’un tableur, d’un traitement de texte et d’une ébauche de base de données, il permettait aux travailleurs indépendants d’assurer les tâches basiques de ce qui s’appelait déjà la bureautique .
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The Harwell computer, later known as the Wolverhampton Instrument for Teaching Computing from Harwell (WITCH), or the Harwell Dekatron Computer, is an early British relay-based computer of the 1950s. From 2009 to 2012, it was restored at the National Museum of Computing. In 2013, for the second time the Guinness Book of World Records recognised it as the world's oldest working digital computer, following its restoration, it previously held the title for several years until it was decommissioned in 1973. The museum uses the computer's visual, dekatron-based memory to teach schoolchildren about computers.
The computer, which weighs two and a half tons was built and used at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment in Harwell, Oxfordshire. Construction started in 1949, and the machine became operational in April 1951. It was handed over to the computing group in May 1952 and remained in use until 1957.
It used dekatrons for volatile memory, similar to RAM in a modern computer, and paper tape for input and program storage. Output was to either a Creed teleprinter or to a paper tape punch. The machine was decimal and initially had twenty eight-digit dekatron registers for internal storage, which was increased to 40 which appeared to be enough for nearly all calculations. It was assembled from components more commonly found in a British telephone exchange. The man who led the effort to rebuild the machine (see below) put it in perspective to the BBC: "All together, the machine can store 90 numbers. The closest analogy is a man with a pocket calculator," Delwyn Holroyd, who led the restoration effort, tells the BBC in a video about the restoration. Although it could on occasions act as a true stored-program computer, that was not its normal mode of operation. It had a multiplication time of between 5 and 10 seconds, very slow for an electronic computer.
As Cooke-Yarborough wrote of his design in 1953 "a slow computer can only justify its existence if it is capable of running for long periods unattended and the time spent performing useful computations is a large proportion of the total time available". The design was noted for its reliability because in the period from May 1952 until February 1953 it averaged 80 hours per week running time. Dr Jack Howlett, Director of the Computer Laboratory at AERE 1948–61, said it "could be left unattended for long periods; I think the record was over one Christmas-New Year holiday when it was all by itself, with miles of input data on punched tape to keep it happy, for at least ten days and was still ticking away when we came back." It was the machine's untiring durability, rather than its speed, that was its main feature. Human mathematicians (a job role called a "hand-computer") could make calculations at a similar speed, but not continuously for the same lengths of time. Dr Howlett commented:
From September 2009, the machine was loaned to The National Museum of Computing in the site of Bletchley Park, where it began to be restored to working order as a Computer Conservation Society project. The museum, a registered charity, invited members of the public and industry to sponsor the restoration of the Harwell computer by purchasing one of 25 shares at £4,500 each. In 2012, the restoration was completed successfully.
Vintage Apple II software on cassette, including an unused blank. From the collection, photographed several years ago.
More of this type of thing to come. Promise.
Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011)
One day, I bite the Apple. Just then, a door of Dream colour's Wonderland opened to me.
Thanks Steve.
From Marie
The Apple II is an 8-bit home computer and one of the world's first highly successful mass-produced microcomputer products, designed primarily by Steve Wozniak. It was introduced by Jobs and Wozniak at the 1977 West Coast Computer Fair and was the first consumer product sold by Apple Computer, Inc. Introduced April 1977, Released June 1977, Discontinued May 1979. Price $1,298 US.
Et oui, il y avait des disquettes spécialisés en 1984 !
Bien que le rendue à l'écran soit vraiment très médiocre si l'on compare a aujourd'hui.
A gauche de la photo un performa 5200.
my basement computer room [set]
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Panorama generated with Apple Quicktime VR Studio 1.0. Photos taken with an Apple QuickTake 200 digital camera (640x480 resolution per photo, camera rotated).
The office of a freelance consultant in the eighties.
Note the daisy wheel printer, the Minitel and the Apple II, just under the screen...
The "word processor" was only a rudimentary text editor which required "marking up" all the formatting commands (bold, underline, italic…).
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Le bureau d'un consultant free-lance dans les années quatre-vingt.
Notez l'imprimante à marguerite (Daisy Wheel), le Minitel et l'Apple II, juste sous l'écran …
Le "traitement de textes" n'était qu'un éditeur de texte rudimentaire qui obligeait à "baliser" toutes les commandes de mise en forme (gras, souligné, italique…).
L'Apple II est caché derrière le Minitel !
The Mac Plus is the first computer I ever used.
The PET is the only one that does anything useful. The other two lack software (floppy disks for the Apple IIe, hard disk for the Mac Plus). I could probably find it if I looked hard enough.
Years ago, before the official launch of the Bay Area Rediscovery Project, we drove down Route 1 from San Francisco and through Princeton-by-the Sea just north of Half Moon Bay. We spotted some restaurants that looked intriguing and vowed to come back; the perfect foil for the Rediscovery Project. So on a rainy Saturday, we ventured south.
The one restaurant that we had spied previously that seemed to be the most intriguing was Barbara's Fishtrap. It seemed popular enough with all of the diners that were packing the available tables sheltered from the rain. It also had enough kitschy decor to suggest that it was a dive. So we had high hopes going in.
Sadly, our hopes were dashed like driftwood flung upon the breakwater by the waves outside the harbor. The food, with the exception of the crab cocktail, was utterly disappointing, particularly when considering that we selected items off the "specials" menu. The cooking was entirely uninspired. Perhaps we would have thought differently if we had ordered the fish and chips off the regular menu, but we were trying to eat healthy, which was probably our first mistake.
Disappointed and strapped for cash because Barbara did not take credit cards, we into downtown Half Moon Bay to the only BofA for miles around. Down in spirit, we spotted a sign for an eatery stating "craft beer and fine wine." But as inviting as that sounded, we were gun shy after our lunch experience, so we forged ahead to Pescadero as per our original plan in the hope that our afternoon would improve if we put more and more distance between us and lunch.
Arriving at Pescadero, the outlook and our moods remained rather gloomy as we couldn't find any place to park along the main drag. Turning around, we eventually found the one parking space that was available in front of Downtown Local, an interesting looking coffee shop with motorcycles in the windows and a couple of Apple IIe's in the back. We ducked in and hoped the caffeine would raise our spirits.
Disquette, manuel, carte, le tout était vendue, en France, dans une simple pochette plastique transparente...
This is where the screenshot and file conversion magic happens. The topless Macintosh IIcx in the foreground was used to provide Mr Siracusa with the System 6 screenshot for his Ars Technica review of OS X 10.9 Mavericks.
Joystick Apple modèle : A2M2002.
C'est se joystick - mythique - qui a permis à toute une génération de "s'éclater" avec les jeux vidéo conçue pour la famille des Apple II !
L'écran qui devait transformer l'Apple IIc en portable ...
Présenté pour la première fois en France au Sicob 1984 celui-ci fut disponible auprès des concessionnaires au début 1985.
De toute petite taille, 29 cm de largeur, 13,8 de profondeur et 4 cm seulement épaisseur il était très en avance sur son époque. L'idée était de rendre l'Apple IIc transportable et utilisable n'importe où. Du temps où les portables n'existaient pas c'était un argument du poids auprès de professionnels appelés a se déplacer souvent.
Il a été conçu pour s'installer avec précision sur le dessus de l'Apple IIc et d'après la brochure publicitaire " pour s'ajuster parfaitement à l'angle optimal de vision ..."
Le gros pont positif de cet écran est son alimentation. En effet il est alimenté directement à partir de l'Apple IIc via la sortie vidéo spéciale à 15 broches (DB-15) aucun besoin d'une source électrique extérieure. Je vous rappelle que cette prise est celle qui reçoit l'adaptateur Péritélévision. Il faudra donc choisir entre l'écran plat ou un téléviseur couleur mais pas les deux à la fois. Par contre il est possible de brancher un moniteur monochrome pour bénéficier d'un second écran. Bien sur il vous faudra toujours une prise électrique pour alimenter l'unité centrale Apple IIc.
L'écran plat affiche des textes "plein écran" sur 80 caractères par ligne et 24 lignes par écran. La résolution est de 560 points horizontaux sur 152 points verticaux. Sur l'arrière de l'écran, coté gauche (voir photo) il existe un interrupteur qui permet de passer des caractères clairs sur fond sombre à des caractères sombres sur fond clair. Le but étant d'améliorer le confort de lecture. Il offre une vision "confortable" dans un angle relativement fermé d'environ 10 degrés de part et d'autre du plan vertical. Il est aussi possible de l'incliner de 0 à 45 degrés.
Concernant l'utilisation de l'écran Apple indique qu'il est indispensable que l'écran soit fortement éclairé par une source de lumière indirecte ne produisant pas de reflets sur celui-ci ... Dernier conseil ne jamais l'exposer directement aux rayons de soleil. Pour un écran qui devait pouvoir être emporté et utilisé partout cela fait beaucoup de restriction.
Il fut commercialisé sous la référence produit A2M4022Z à un tarif d'environ 8000 frs soit 1200 €. Tarif qui me semble raisonnable pour l'époque si l'écran avait tenue toute ses promesses.
En fait se fut un flop commercial. Le gros, très gros problème de l'écran était sa lisibilité vraiment médiocre et je suis gentil quand j'utilise le terme de médiocre. Soyons clair, l'écran n'était pas utilisable sauf dans des conditions optimales difficilement trouvables et malgré ses conditions il vous garantissait un mal de tête au bout 1/2 heure d'utilisation. De nos jours, l'écran ayant été fabriqué à peu d'exemplaires il est un objet de choix, difficile à trouver, pour tout collectionneur.
A free-lance consultant's desk in 1982 : Apple II personal computer, display screen in caracters mode, dot printer, daisy wheel printer, the famous french videotext 'Minitel' and a lot of floppy-disks …
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Voici les outils avec lesquels la bureautique a démarré : un ordinateur Apple II, un Minitel et une imprimante à marguerite, une imprimante matricielle, un écran en mode caractères et beaucoup de disquettes …
Vue générale :
Aztec un jeu vidéo pour Apple II (1982)
Le début de l'aventure, l'aventurier descend dans le labyrinthe...
On the Apple IIGS. Accelerated 8MHz (ZipGS) Apple IIGS w/ 5.25MB RAM, ethernet, CFFA3000 floppy/HD emu. Terminal prog = Spectrum.
So its the start of my second year in a couple more weeks. Thought i'd share how my desk area is looking.
Also spent this morning rewiring my new purchase a Type 746 telephone in two tone green, to work with a modern BT telephone and it runs flawlessly, no issues at all. I'll defo be buying some more to convert and sell on. This one however, I'm keeping as it matches the other olive green objects around my room pretty well. Just now awaiting my telephone socket to get fitted and all will be set!!
I'm actually looking forward to getting an iMac in the coming weeks, my current 27'' is a tad too large and it takes up quite a bit of desk space. This display will eventually be wall mounted and work as a media centre with my MBP
An Apple II is the focus of this student desk. The display was created by the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI to show everyday life during the 1980s.
An Apple II-"almost-compatible" computer from Multitech (today's Acer)
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Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer, stands with the Apple II that he helped develop, and which now is part of the Computer History Museum's new "Revolutions" exhibit.
AppleShare Server 3.0 can remotely boot a stock Apple IIgs or Apple IIe with a Workstation Card.
The Macintosh Classic running AppleShare Server 3.0 on the left. The Apple IIgs booting GS/OS 6.0.1 from the AppleShare Server. Mission accomplished!
This page inspired me.:
Apple IIe
disk II Diskettenlaufwerk
Apple Grünmonitor
Mehrere Apple IIe, Monitore und Einzel- und Diskettenlaufwerke zu vergeben.
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Une toute partie de ma collection, Apple IIgs, Apple II+, des macs de la famille des LC, Un macintosh II FX, un disque dur, des drives 5.25 ...
Une partie de ma collection de "vieux' micros Apple.
Au premier plan, un "Lisa" avec son DD profile, un Apple III et son lecteur de disquettes externe et à droite un Newton emate300.
This is the most favorite computer I used. My Apple IIGS got the signature of Apple II pioneer and its God - Steve Wozniak, the limited edition of Apple IIGS. Hey, though the Apple IIGS display is too blurred now, but the entire set except the monitor is workable!
My IIGS also has Vulcan 40MB hard disk with 512MB RAM, and 9MHz 65816 processor upgrade card from Applied Engineering. GS/OS 5.x loaded. Unfortunately, there is no Flickr group for Apple II, so I sent this to Macintosh groups.
這台電腦是我的最愛，Apple IIGS，國內大概很少人聽過吧，簡單地說，就是 Apple II 的 16bit 版加上 Mac OS 的使用者界面。這台真是超讚的機器，我花了很多時間在這台上，學了 65816 的組合語言，再加上 GS/OS 的 API call（C、Pascal、65816 assembly）。由於這台是那時音樂最強的機器，那時一直很想作一套做音樂的軟體，一直研究聲波的東西，例如怎麼把喇叭的聲音分割成好幾個段落，才能變成一個數位的樂器來使用，可惜後來真的是被 Mac 搶了風采，所以 Apple II 系列後來就不見了，我也在大專時代就改用 PC + Mac，所以這台就漸漸地被移到倉庫裡了...