Perhaps this will surprise some of our readers, but Apple was manufacturing its products long before the first one saw the light of day iPhone or iPad. In the last decades, the company has managed to create a number of really interesting and highly successful products, but on the other hand, Apple brought to the market products that were forgotten almost immediately after their launch and given the sales results of these products, he would prefer to forget them himself Apple. In the times when we talked about Apple The following products also appeared on the Computers market, which were not exactly among the most successful that the company ever presented, but are certainly worth our attention. If you company history Apple interested, check out our section Apple History.
AppleColor Monitor 100
In 1984, long before the first LCD display appeared, he introduced Apple a new color monitor named AppleColor Monitor 100. The monitor began to be sold as a special accessory for the computer Apple II, which could normally be connected to a TV, but such a display was not very high-quality, so users had a special monitor at their disposal, which, however, also worked with a special graphics card, which was needed to connect a computer Apple II to the monitor. Unfortunately, the price of these two products, which could not do without each other, corresponded to the price of an ordinary car, so not too many pieces survived and were not even produced.
Apple Cluster Controller
A year before the monitor saw the light of day AppleColor 100 could be with fans of the company Apple meet the Cluster Controller. As you might guess from the name, this accessory was able to connect several computers Apple, specifically up to seven in one network, which was used for complex calculations, which today can be easily handled by an iPod shuffle. The computers could be connected into one supercomputer, but the Cluster itself also had its own processor, so it was essentially a miniature computer. Later in 1985 then Apple introduced AppleLine Convertor, which made it possible to connect other models of computers. So far, however, this device has not appeared in any museum or collection, which also indicates the very small number of pieces produced.
Apple Techstep
Even the company's technicians Apple and service centers have had their way in the past. Whereas today they have software available on a USB stick, in 1991 Apple introduced a special diagnostic tool called techstep, which a technician used to check for hardware failures in a Macintosh computer. In 1991, a special box equipped with a 4-line display showed 16 characters on each line, so that the technician could see what the problem with the computer was. The Techstep had a replaceable ROM chip and the technician had to use a separate chip for each computer tested.
Apple Presentation System
In 1994, the product that we now know as AirPlay. Apple as early as 1994, it offered the possibility of mirroring the image from a Macintosh computer directly to another monitor or television. Using Presentation system technology, the computer was connected to a TV or monitor, and the presenter could show the work on his computer to everyone in the hall. It probably won't surprise anyone that most of the units sold were sold to educational institutions.
*Source: weiphone.com
