the Apple II, Commodore PET and Tandy TRS-80, which were offered pre-assembled with a monitor and keyboard. The IBM PC, however, wasn't released for another four years in 1981. The "1977 Trinity ...

In the same year, OS/2, jointly developed by IBM and Microsoft, was introduced, and more powerful Macs, such as the Mac SE and Mac II, opened new doors for Apple. In 1989, the PC makers introduced ...

That is how he came up with the Apple I, which led to the Apple II and the birth of the ... But that early adopter number changed when IBM introduced its first PC in 1981. Although the first ...

While the Apple II PC was popular, it couldn't run a lot of ... Microsoft went on to make add-on cards and products for IBM-compatible PCs (Maybe we will write a separate article about those ...

1977: Apple is selling its Apple II for $1,195, including 16K of ... by IBM to develop BASIC for its personal computer project. The IBM PC is released in August, 1981. The Apple Macintosh debuts ...

the VisiCalc spreadsheet was the killer app for the Apple II, providing reason enough to purchase the hardware. VisiCalc was followed by Lotus 1-2-3 and Excel for the IBM PC. In the early 1990s ...

and any company that had to manage their finances and could afford an Apple II and Visicalc. Soon after IBM entered the PC market in 1981, Lotus 1-2-3 came to market and spurred huge demand for ...