Happy 50th Birthday Apple!
Happy 50th Birthday Apple! 50 years ago today (no joke!) Apple was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne. Apple seed capital was largely raised from Jobs selling his VW Bus and Woz selling his HP-65 calculator. With those proceeds they built a prototype of the Apple I.
The Apple I "computer" consisted of a motherboard with CPU, Radom Access Memory (4 KB), and textual-video chips. No monitor was included. There was a wooden box to hold the system. This product was first demo'd at a local computer club. Who would have thought that from that initial product launch that not even the sky was the limit?
Over the next 50 years via legendary innovation, design, and marketing Apple became the world's most valuable consumer electronics company. In many respects, Apple redefined society, work and leisure became one. Mobile work has become ubiquitous. Jobs succeeded in his goal of "putting a dent in the universe." And Apple investors? Well $10,000 invested in the company's IPO in 1982 would be worth roughly $33,000,000 today.
