Steve Wozniak designed the Apple I, a
single-board computer. With specifications in hand and an order for 100
machines at $500 each from the Byte Shop, he and Steve Jobs got their
start in business. In this photograph of the Apple I board, the upper
two rows are a video terminal and the lower two rows are the computer.
The 6502 microprocessor in the white package sits on the lower right.
About 200 of the machines sold before the company announced the Apple II
as a complete computer.
The Cray I made its name as the first
commercially successful vector processor. The fastest machine of its
day, its speed came partly from its shape, a C, which reduced the length
of wires and thus the time signals needed to travel across them.
Source: - www.computerhistory.org
