Altair 8800

of their success on their computer, Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs formed Apple Computer on April 1, 1976. Wozniak resigned from Hewlett-Packard and became the vice president for research and development at Apple. The Apple I was similar to the Altair 8800 except it did not use internal expansion cards. Wozniak’s design of the Apple I included a twenty-five dollar processor on a 256 byte ROM circuit board, 4K or 8K bytes of RAM and a 40 by 24 display controller. A user of the Apple I had to…