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APPLE COMPUTER, INC.

Specialty Definition: APPLE COMPUTER, INC.

DomainDefinition

Computing

Apple Computer, Inc. Manufacturers of the Macintosh range of personal computers as well as the earlier Apple I, Apple II and Lisa. Founded on 1 April 1976 by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. Apples were among the first microcomputers. They originally used the 6502 processor and are still being made (August 1994), now using the 65816. The Apple II line, which includes the Apple I, is the longest existing line of microcomputers. Steve Jobs left Apple (involuntarily) and started NeXT and later returned when Apple bought NeXT in late 1997(?). Quarterly sales $2150M, profits $138M (Aug 1994). Home (http://www.apple.com/). [Dates? More?] (1998-03-13). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: APPLE COMPUTER, INC.

Specialty definitions using "APPLE COMPUTER, INC.": Acorn Computers Ltd., Advanced RISC Machines Ltd., Apple Newton, AppletalkClaris, Component Integration LaboratoriesJef RaskinLISANeXT, Inc.PowerPC G3. (references)

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Commercial Usage: APPLE COMPUTER, INC.

DomainTitle

Books

  • Apple Confidential: The Real Story of Apple Computer, Inc. (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: APPLE COMPUTER, INC.


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 50 50 4C 45      43 4F 4D 50 55 54 45 52 2C      49 4E 43 2E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01010000 01010000 01001100 01000101 00100000 01000011 01001111 01001101 01010000 01010101 01010100 01000101 01010010 00101100 00100000 01001001 01001110 01000011 00101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#80 &#80 &#76 &#69 &#32 &#67 &#79 &#77 &#80 &#85 &#84 &#69 &#82 &#44 &#32 &#73 &#78 &#67 &#46

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0050 0050 004C 0045      0043 004F 004D 0050 0055 0054 0045 0052 002C      0049 004E 0043 002E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

35505046392374947505554395214243483716

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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