In both parts of our today's "historical" article, we will go back to the seventies of the last century. We will commemorate the successful launch of Apollo 16 and also return to the West Coast Computer Faire to commemorate the introduction of the Apple II and Commodore PET 2001 computers.
On April 16, 1972, the Apollo 16 flight headed into space. It was the tenth American manned space flight that was part of the Apollo program, and at the same time the fifth flight in which people successfully landed on the moon in the twentieth century. Apollo 16 took off from Florida's Cape Canaveral, its crew consisted of John Young, Thomas Mattingly and Charles Duke Jr., the backup crew consisted of Fred Haise, Stuart Roosa and Edgar Mitchell. Apollo 16 landed on the moon on April 20, 1972, after its landing the crew landed the rover on the surface of the moon, which it left there after its departure with the camera turned on for live television broadcast to viewers on Earth.
Apple II and Commodore (1977)
In one of the previous parts of our Return to the Past, we mentioned the first annual West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco. Today we will return to it again, but this time, instead of the fair as such, we will focus on two devices that were presented at it. These were an Apple II computer and a Commodore PET 2001 computer. Both machines were equipped with the same MOS 6502 processors, but they differed greatly in terms of design, as well as in terms of approach from the manufacturers. While Apple wanted to produce computers that would have more features and would also be sold at a higher price, Commodore wanted to go the route of less equipped but relatively inexpensive machines. The Apple II sold for $1298 at the time, while the 2001 Commodore PET was priced at $795.
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Commodore PET 2001
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