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Didn't Apple start integrated? The Apple 1 and Apple II were largely designed by them, the OS was written by Apple, they licensed Basic from Microsoft. The Inte
by brightrhino 6y ago
Didn't Apple start integrated? The Apple 1 and Apple II were largely designed by them, the OS was written by Apple, they licensed Basic from Microsoft. The Integrated Woz Machine [0] ran the floppy drive. It seems like it's part of their DNA, they always try to do as much as possible themselves.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_Woz_Machine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_Woz_Machine
- jacquesm 6y agoNo, those were tinkerers machines with as much of their IO exposed as could be done. Even the later Lisa had expansion slots.