l1L
Appendix
A,
Ask
Apple
C-m
I
take
my
Apple
O\"ttSCa'>
~
iI
is?
'-:0. You
need
to
buy
a heavy-duty,
stcp·down
traf\5former from
your
de:l.ler, 50 that
your
system
CoIn
handle
other
VOltages. Here's
the
formula for deciding which voltage tr.illnsformcr you'll
need
Look
on
the hack
of
Mch piece
of
equfpmC711
in your
computer
system
and
find
the
voltage requirement
Now
add
those
numbers
together.
Then
buy
a transformer lhat meets
your
tOlal system
requirements, A typical Apple system requires a lOO·wau
transformer. Also
be
sure
to
purcha.sc a
monitor
for your
computer
in
!he
United Slates,
because
morutors
made
for
olher
countries are
different
and
may
not
""-ark
as weil with
your
system Again, cof\5ult
your
dealer
about
O\'C~
requirements
How
did
Apple
get
its
name?
1bc
name
Apple COmpuler was
chosen
late
one
aftcrnoon
as
Steve
jobs
and
StC\"e
Wowiak,
Apple's founders, faced
the
deadline
for
ming a Fiaitious Kame
Sutement
(a
busil"lC55
licensmg
procedure)
After voUeying names back
and
fOtth
with Wozniak for hours,
jobs
k>oked
at
the
apple
he
was
eating
and
decided
that, unless
he
or
Wozniak arrived at 5Omel.hing
better
by
five
a'dock,
they
would
call
the
company
Apple. Five
o'dock
came
and
went,
...
pple
was the r1C\I.
company's
name.
Is dlCre
such:l
dling
a<>
the
Apple
t?
Yes.
The Apple I
was
the
first
computer that
Slcvejobs
and
Steve
WOVliak created.
The
computer
was
designed at night in a lab at
l-lewlell-Pack.ard
and
manufacrured in a
garage
that
belonged
to
Stcve
jobs's
parcnts, Although
advanced
for its time,
it
was
still
pretty
primiti\'e-no
case,
no
keyboard,
and
no
disk drive
As
a
result, Apple I
OWIlCrs
fround thcmselves digging
through
clectronics stores for cases
and
keyboards
and
Sloring their
programs
and
dat1l
on
ca.ssctte tape, About 200 Apple I's
were
built
Colleaors
now
pay
between
$10,000
and
$15,000 for
an
Apple I
Did
dIe
Apple
I h.-we:l manua1?
Yes.
It
was
about
eight pages long.
\1;'ho
designed
the
Apple
logo?
The Apple logo
was
designed
by Regis McKenna, a Silicon Valley
public relatiof\5 firm. The original Apple logo
was
a
design
of
Sir
Isaac
Newton
under
an
Apple tree. But
Newton
didn't lend himself
10
reproduction,
so
Regis McKenna was called in
to
create
a
snappier
insignia.
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