{"id":1258,"date":"2007-06-05T23:03:59","date_gmt":"2007-06-05T22:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/06\/the-apple-ii-30-years-ago-today\/"},"modified":"2011-01-18T21:32:18","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T21:32:18","slug":"the-apple-ii-30-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/05\/the-apple-ii-30-years-ago-today\/","title":{"rendered":"The Apple II &#8211; 30 Years Ago Today!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks a very\u00a0special day for Apple Inc, as today is the 3oth Anniversary of the Apple II, the first ever personal computer\u00a0to go on sale. 30 Years ago hey, that&#8217;s some time ago, I bet it wasn&#8217;t predicted that the Apple Brand would be where it was today in the year 2007.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The <strong>Apple II<\/strong> (sometimes written as <strong>Apple ][<\/strong> or <strong>Apple \/\/<\/strong>) was the first popular <a title=\"Microcomputer\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Microcomputer\">microcomputer<\/a> manufactured by <a title=\"Apple Inc.\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Apple_Inc.\">Apple<\/a>. Its direct ancestor was the <a title=\"Apple I\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Apple_I\">Apple I<\/a>, a limited production <a title=\"Circuit board\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Circuit_board\">circuit board<\/a> computer for electronics hobbyists which pioneered many features that made the Apple II a commercial success. Introduced at the <a title=\"West Coast Computer Faire\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/West_Coast_Computer_Faire\">West Coast Computer Faire<\/a> in <a title=\"1977\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1977\">1977<\/a>, the Apple II was one of the very first and most successful <a title=\"Personal computer\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Personal_computer\">personal computers<\/a>. A number of different models were sold, and the most popular model was manufactured with relatively minor changes into the 1990s. By the end of its production in 1993, somewhere between five and six million Apple II series computers (including approximately 1.25 million Apple II<small>GS<\/small> models) had been produced.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks a very\u00a0special day for Apple Inc, as today is the 3oth Anniversary of the Apple II, the first ever personal computer\u00a0to go on sale. 30 Years ago hey, that&#8217;s some time ago, I bet it wasn&#8217;t predicted that the Apple Brand would be where it was today in the year 2007. The Apple II (sometimes written as Apple<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pull-left padding-top-25\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/05\/the-apple-ii-30-years-ago-today\/\" class=\"btn btn-theme\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Apple II &#8211; 30 Years Ago Today!&#8221;<\/span> <i class=\"fa fa-fw fa-long-arrow-right\"><\/i> <\/a>  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}