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I was a C64 kid all the way, but the Apple II was released four or five years earlier than the C64. It very definitely blazed the way for the C64, and arguably
by colomon 13y ago
I was a C64 kid all the way, but the Apple II was released four or five years earlier than the C64. It very definitely blazed the way for the C64, and arguably deserves the place of honor in the list; I don't think the C64 would have been what it was without Apple going first. (Leaving C64 totally off the 6502 list is a travesty, though.)
- danmaz74 13y agoBut the Commodore PET was released the same year of the Apple II, and outsold it during the first years. The myth is that there was only the Apple II, and everyone else copied it - that's definitely not true.
- colomon 13y agoThe C64 was very clearly Commodore's attempt to use its technology to make an Apple II-style home computer. Oh! I just checked on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_PET#Origins_and_the_early_models http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_PET#Origins_and_the_e... and here's something I didn't know: "In September 1976 Peddle got a demonstration of Jobs and Wozniak's Apple II prototype, when Jobs was offering to sell it to Commodore, but Commodore considered Jobs' offer too expensive." So it turns out even the PET was at least somewhat inspired by the Apple II. Like I said, I loved my C64. But I remember when it came out, and everyone understood it was Commodore's answer to the Apple II. A very successful answer, mind you!
- danmaz74 13y agoThis is funny. Chuck Peddle had designed the first microcomputer design around the MOS 6502 - that's the MOS Technology KIM-1 (1975), which was a reference board and was sold as a kit. The Apple I was mostly inspired by that - which is normal, considering that it was the reference board. I seriously doubt that Peddle needed much inspiration from Apple for the PET.