1. Apple’s first logo
Nearly all Apple fans know that apple logo with retro colors of the rainbow is the logo which is known by many people before the Apple logo that now. But the first Apple logo was a picture in which Sir Isaac Newton sitting under an apple tree with apples that would fall on his head. The logo was designed by the founders of Apple’s less well-known named Ronald Wayne, and he eventually sold Apple to Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak with a price of $ 800. The logo is only used very briefly, in 1976. Because the logo is not showing the impact of the increase to the Apple then the Isaac logo immediately replaced.
2. Wozniak sold his scientific calculator to raise capital
In order to raise capital to build Apple, Steve Jobs and Wozniak sells Volkswagen and Wozniak sells his HP-65 calculator was worth $500. Maybe those of us who were born in the years after 1990 will be surprised to hear how expensive the price of a calculator. But in 1976, scientific calculator has the same price with a laptop on this day. And after that Woz managed to get the sale price of $ 795, you can bet that if the buyer knows that the calculator is part of the history of the computer so you can imagine how the price offered on eBay. So would be very expensive!
3. Apple found Dogcow
Ever heard of “DogCow?” first Apple users must be informed, Dogcow included in the Cairo font that is part of the original Macintosh. After the Cairo font was stopped, Dogcow live with LaserWriter drivers 4.0 and later became a kind of mascot for the Apple staff.
Designed by Susan Kare, Dogcow able to cast a vote “moof” and can be found in all versions of the Mac OS until OS X. In the late 1980, Dogcow have a good popularity, so much used by a group of other developers, including Microsoft which uses Dogcow on their ads. After this incident, Apple immediately trademark Dogcow and sound “moof”.
4. Apple has a price range $666.66
Apple prices are very expensive so much criticized by some people until now. But history speaks, that Apple is always bragging himself premises prices are very high. Even if at the time of inflation, then we are back in this day, then first Apple price is more expensive than the Macbook Air or Macbook Pro 17-inch on this day. If we see that the 1 Apple’s price has evil connotation that is $ 666.66, but Woz explained in a press conference soon. He said that Apple first sold at wholesale prices to the stores is $ 500, and stores selling price is $ 667 retail. But Woz change everything into a single digit ie $ 666.66 to make it easier to type.
5. Apple makes first mass-market digital camera
Back in 1994, Apple released their first digital camera in the U.S.. Apple QuickTake 100 can take stunning pictures and connect to your Mac via a cable. Price range camera with the price of $ 749, the equivalent of $ 1000 on this day, which seems ridiculous with such an expensive price can only get a camera with less than one megapixel resolution and no digital display. QuickTake later expanded into the two models before Steve Jobs had to stop production in 1997.
6. The first edition of iPod has a secret of the Easter egg
The first edition of iPod comes with a little secret, namely the Easter eggs. Which can be accessed if the user knows the right combination at the time of pressing the button. How to find this game is described by Nick Triano in 2002 at Geek.com. Where the user can hold the center button for 3 seconds, and users will get Breakout (Pong) game of the Easter egg.
7. Name “Macintosh” was inspired by a type of apple
Steve Jobs gives his daughter’s name with the name Apple lisa, but from where did the name “Macintosh” is found? Jeff Raskin, Apple employee explains that the nameof Macintosh obtained from different varieties of apples.
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