Sophistication & Simplicity
Sophistication & Simplicity

Author: Steven Weyhrich

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780986832277

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Despite humble beginnings, today Apple, Inc. enjoys unprecedented popularity and prosperity with its products, routinely selling over a million devices in a single day. It is a major innovator in the computing and consumer landscape, and as shown in this retrospective, the history of the Apple II computer plays a large part in the current successes of the company. The late 1970s saw the dawn of the Apple II, the company's first hit product. It provided the breathing room for Apple to become self-sustaining and ultimately blossom into one of the greatest business and technology successes in history. This account provides a unique view of early personal computing and Apple as a company, focusing almost exclusively on the role of the Apple II within that story. It extends outward to the products, publications, and early online services that made up the ecosystem for the platform during its active years, and follows the story to present-day enthusiasts who still find new things to do with a computer that got its start more than 35 years ago.

Programmer's Introduction to the Apple IIGS
Programmer's Introduction to the Apple IIGS

Author: Apple Computer, Inc

Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780201177459

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As a part of the Apple Technical Library, written by the experts at Apple, this book provides the definitive and authoritative information for programming the Apple IIGS. Explains essential concepts and provides tips and practical advice for programmers and developers. (Apple)

Apple Confidential 2.0
Apple Confidential 2.0

Author: Owen W. Linzmayer

Publisher: No Starch Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 1593270100

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Chronicles the best and the worst of Apple Computer's remarkable story.

AppleDesign
AppleDesign

Author: Paul Kunkel

Publisher: Back Stage Books

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9781888001259

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To celebrate Apple's twentieth anniversary, AppleDesign provides a rare inside look at the Industrial Design Group, examining the role this small team of creative individuals has played in the rise of Apple from a Silicon Valley garage to a billion-dollar corporation. It details the formation of the Group, outlines their method for turning great ideas into even greater products, reveals many design concepts and products that never reached the marketplace, and offers a glimpse at the triumph and turmoil than results when creative desire meets (and occasionally collides with) corporate reality. With more than 400 color illustrations and detailed discussion of more than 100 products, design concepts and works-in-progress, AppleDesign provides the most thorough examination of a corporate design group ever published. From the Macintosh to the PowerBook, the Newton MessagePad, the eMate and the just-released Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh, Apple's designers have given us some of the most compelling and enduring products of our time. Their work not only enriches the lives of more than 50 million Apple users worldwide, it influences the computer industry at large, providing strong evidence for those who argue that industrial design is as powerful and relevant an art form as painting, sculpture or architecture.

Break Out
Break Out

Author: David L. Craddock

Publisher: Schiffer Publishing

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 9780764353222

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"Around the world, millions of people hijack cars in Grand Theft Auto, role play fantastical heroes in World of WarCraft, and crush candy on phones as small as wallets yet nearly as powerful as desktop computers. Long before video games became a multi-billion-dollar industry, a small group of hackers created the Apple II, a PC that contained less memory than the average size of a Microsoft Word document and turned heads by outputting graphics in color. Some users tapped its resources to design productivity software. Others devised some of the most influential games of all time. From the perils along the Oregon Trail and the exploits of Carmen Sandiego to the shadowy dungeons of Wizardry and Prince of Persia s trap-filled labyrinth, Break Out recounts the making of some of the Apple II s most iconic games, illustrates how they informed the games we play today, and tells the stories of the pioneers who made them."--Page 4 of cover.