Apple II, every mention
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The Steve Ballmer Interview · Acquired
- ▶ 10:54 Steve Ballmer We had a card called the CPM soft card or the soft card for the Apple II.
- ▶ 11:00 Steve Ballmer It was a card that plugged into an Apple II that ran CPM, not our operating system.
- ▶ 11:13 Steve Ballmer But we had licensed it to put on this card that plugged in the Apple II.
Microsoft Volume I: The Complete History and Strategy of founding through Windows 95 (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:04:52 David Rosenthal And the Apple II.
- ▶ 1:10:40 David Rosenthal Of access for Apple, for the Apple II to Microsoft's BASIC.
- ▶ 1:25:54 David Rosenthal So all the early microcomputers we were just talking about, you know, the Altair, the Apple II, the TRS-eighty, these are all eight-bit machines.
- ▶ 2:13:54 David Rosenthal In 1979, kind of at the tail end of the eight-bit era, two programs come out for the Apple II, VisiCalc and WordStar.
- ▶ 2:14:23 David Rosenthal There's a joke at one point in the industry that the Apple II was a quote-unquote VisiCalc accessory for small businesses.
- ▶ 2:20:00 David Rosenthal VisiCalc, I believe, was more or less basically only on the Apple II.
Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins on The Art of Business in Gaming · Acquired
- ▶ 1:43:57 Mitch Lasky Yeah, except that we were Apple II family, and my dad was one of these guys who loved technology but couldn't understand how any of it worked, so he would buy this stuff
- ▶ 1:45:00 Mitch Lasky So, that was, ah, again, we, we would inherit, we would inherit these technologies, whether they were, like, or, you know, early video cameras, or whether they were computers in the case of the Apple IIs, and then we would screw around…