In the early 1980’s computers were unknown. The only real computers were called mainframe computers and they took up an entire room in size. They used a special code called binary that only worked with 1’s and O’s. All of the data had to be inputted by stretches of tape or by flipping switches. It took people to develop a computer language for the computer to take off. The first language was called Cobal and it was followed by Fortran and Basic. Because of the large size of computers, having one would require having space big enough to house a room size machine. It took a company named Intel and its founder Gordon Moore, to develop a microprocessor, which shrunk down the size of the processor by placing millions of transistors on a single …show more content…
The 1978 show drew thousands of people and Apple “stole the show”. Within 2 years of the show, sales at Apple were enormous; they were making more money than they could spend. After the release of Apple 2 many more people started to use P.C’s. But there was a problem; the P’C’s still had no real purpose or application to make everyone want to have one. It took the genius of Dan Brinklin, a professor at Harvard, to come up with the help of programmer Bob Franston, to come up with a spreadsheet program called Visicalc (visible calculator). Viscalc hit the market in 1979 selling for 100 dollars. It could do in seconds what it took an entire day for one person to do on a computer. The spreadsheet answered the “what if” questions. Thanks to Viscalc the Apple 2 made history. Unfortunately the creators of Viscalc did not patent their spreadsheet idea, thus they did not make the money that men like Jobs, Wozniak and Gates made. Although Ed Roberts invented the computer, Jobs and Wozniak are the ones who became multi-millionaires. The P.C. market became a billion dollar industry which 50% of the market belongs to Apple. The nerds had inherited the earth.
While watching television recently I noticed that a movie will be coming out in the next few days about Steve Jobs. I have heard bits and pieces about his life and what type of person he was, plus I knew Apple was started in a garage. This video was very interesting; it
A dramatic transformation in the advancement of technology has continued to evolve since the 1950’s. As computers started out, they were very expensive to make, they were slow and the computers were very basic. Now in days people can carry computers in their backpack but in the 90s, the computers would take up a whole room. The reason their computers were so large was because they required magnetic drums to store memory for the computer and vacuum tubes as switches and amplifiers. Today, these devices are built into our computers and other time they made them more compact. Also, as time went on, we received faster and more advanced technology. We are still using computers from the 1950s today; they are just highly advanced versions of their
Computers become more advanced, with more functions. The first Apple computer was sold with Atari's first video game console on the year 1977.
Steve Jobs created a new world for so many of us. In a generation of ever expanding digital capabilities, the “Apple Guy,” would change the world. Steve would go on to create and present technology that has and continues to astound us. It was very difficult to watch this genius introduce one of his creations and find something wrong with any of his approaches.
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, a pair of 20-something college dropouts, founded Apple Computer on April Fool’s Day, 1976. Working out of the Jobs family’s garage in Los Altos, California, they built a computer circuit board that they named the Apple I. Within several months, they had made 200 sales and taken on a new partner-A.C.”Mike” Markkula, Jr., a freshly minted millionaire who had retired from Intel at the age of 33. Markkula, who was instrumental in attracting venture capital, was the experienced businessman on the team; Wozniak was the technical genius; and jobs were the visionary who sought “to change the world through technology.”
By the early 1980s, millions of microcomputers had found their way into U.S. businesses and homes, and in 1982, Time magazine dubbed the computer its "Machine of the Year."
Steve Jobs is an entrepreneur and an inventor whose actions still affect us today in a very great way. Steve Jobs created Apple. The Apple company has made many types of electronics that make our day a lot easier. The Apple software company has also made millions of dollars off of iPads, iPhones, and lots of other tech that helps us with our day-to-day work. From sending emails to playing video games Apple has made it so much more efficient. Steve created one of the first Pixar films. Almost everyone loves Pixar. They make great movies and there’s that hopping lamp at the beginning. But Pixar might have gone out of business if it weren’t for Jobs to create Toy Story. The movie got great views and was highly liked. But all these Pixar films
The origin of the computer resides with the military. The computer itself was created by the military during the Cold War era, when we were in a technological race with Russia. This race was the fuel for massive advancements in technology especially in the sector of computer intelligence. The first Computer’s were physically large enough to fill an entire room. They were used to manage large quantities of data in textual and numerical form. The government backed certain research facilities in the advancement of the computer and some investigated and experimented in computer technology with art and music. 1
Co-founded by Steve Jobs in 1976, the company was named under Apple Computers Inc. and its initial product Apple IIe gained relative popularity and success. The release of the Macintosh revolutionized the computer experience with a graphical user interfere and a pointer devise called the ‘mouse’ was launched in the same year. The company went public in 1980 resulting in its owners gaining immediate wealth. However, its company’s
The Apple II was a true innovation for its time and completely revolutionized the computer market. However, it was not the Apple II itself that was amazing even though it had color graphics and a very high resolution for its time; it was what you could do with the computer that garnered so much interest, especially from businesses (Rawlinson). Dan Bricklin, a Harvard Business School student saw that he could create and run a program on the Apple II that could do a few different types of calculations – we know this today as a spreadsheet. The program or app, named VisiCalc, solidified Apple’s place in the computer and technology industry (Rawlinson). After the Apple II came the Macintosh and then came the iMac. The iMac was a design of beauty “on the shelves next to the beige computers that dominated the market back then, the teal iMac, with its cutecircular mouse and translucent body, stood out” (The Apple Revolution). Apple did what none of the other companies were doing at the time, they found ways to
In the garage of a childhood friend, Steve Jobs began his ventures as an inventor, creating a device that would mimic a telephone computer. This was definitely an illegal invention as it allowed free long distance calls, but its creation paved the path to Steve Jobs’ successful career as an entrepreneur. With the help of Steve Wozniak and Ron Wayne, Jobs founded one of the most successful companies of his time and now the most successful company in the country. With his death in 2011, there is no doubt that Steve Jobs has left a tremendous imprint on the modern day world. Steve Jobs has changed our world drastically and it is evident through the new and innovative technology still to date being released by Apple, a company he founded over 40 years ago.
Since 1976, Apple Inc. has been a company on the rise. Apple Inc. was created in Mountain View, California by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. Jobs and Wozniak combined their different talents and skills to make Apple into a successful company, with Job being the visionary and marketer and Wozniak had the brains in technology. Mike Markkula also joined the team as the businessman. Jobs set the mission of empowering individuals, oner person – one computer, and doing so with elegance of design and fierce attention to detail (Gamble, Thompson, 2015). And with this mission, Apple Inc. has come a long way from when it first was founded, by being one of the top electronic companies in the world. “Our people must learn to devote themselves to doing what is good, in order to provide for urgent needs and not live unproductive lives” (Titus 3:14).
The Man in the Machine is the story of infamous Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ life from his first job working with computers until Steve’s battle with cancer. Alex Gibney, the director of the film states, “The motivation to make the film was why so many people who didn't know Steve Jobs was weeping when he left”, which shows his intentions when creating the film . The film focuses on the façade Steve Jobs hid from the public and the cruel behavior he had towards his friends and employees. In the film, The Man in the Machine, the director depicts Steve Jobs as a self-centered individual opposed to the generous businessman his audience sought him to be.
Before he even speaks, Steve Jobs’ credibility is established. During the introduction of John Hennessy, he mentions on who the co-founder of Apple and Pixar Animation Studios is. Without saying anything further, majority of the audience have a good idea on who this man is. When Jobs was in Stanford, he met Steve Wozniak, and the two of them created the Macintosh, first user friendly computer. Before Apple was as big as it is today, it was first created in the garage of Jobs' parents, which later on had turned into a 2 billion dollar company which had over 4,000
They didn 't care about that anymore. They didn 't have a clue about how to do it and they didn 't take any time to find out because that 's not what they cared about. They cared about making a lot of money so they had this wonderful thing that a lot of brilliant people made called the Macintosh and they got very greedy and
The first ever computer was invented in the 1820s by Charlse Babbage. However the first electronic digital computer were developed between 1940 and 1945 in the United States and in the United Kingdom. They were gigantic, originally the size of a large room, and also need to be supply a large amount of power source which is equivalent as several hundred modern personal computers. The history of computer hardware covers the developments from simple devices to aid calculation, to mechanical calculators, punched card data processing and on to modern stored program computers. The tools or mechanical tool used to help in calculation are called calculators while the machine operator that help in calculations is called computer. At first the