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  • Steve Jobs left Apple on his own, wasn't forced out, Wozniak says

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    Originally Posted by sirdir View Post

     

    I'd say the difference between the altair and the Apple I is larger than the difference between the Apple I and the Apple II.

    The altair had a few switches and a few leds, that's it. No keyboard, no screen.


    Neither did the Apple I. Apple I was just a board. To make it a computer the user needed to add a case, a tv set, a keyboard, power supply etc. What made Apple I distinctive was the fact that you could connect it to a tv set instead of requiring a special monitor.

     

    Edit/Update: Altair 8800 established many PC standards like the bus that was used and the programming language BASIC etc. I was responding to a post that said Woz was the 'inventor of PC'. I feel he is significant in its evolution, but can't be name the inventor. 

    MacsAlways