Amaya Toman Today's part of our regular historical column will once again be related to Apple. This time we recall a period that was certainly not easy for this company - Michael Spindler was replaced as CEO by Gil Amelio, who hoped that he would be able to save the dying Apple. But we will also remember the presentation of the low-cost computer TRS-80.
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TRS-80 computer (1977)
On February 2, 1877, Charles Tandy, CEO of the Tandy Corporation and owner of the Radio Schack retail chain, was presented with a prototype of the TRS-80 computer. Based on this demonstration, Tandy decided to start selling this model in August of the same year. The name TRS was an abbreviation of the words "Tandy Radio Shack" and the mentioned computer met with a rather good response from customers. The computer was fitted with a 1.774 MHz Zilog Z80 microprocessor, equipped with 4 KB of memory and running the TRSDOS operating system. The retail price of the base model was $399, which earned the TRS-80 the nickname "the poor man's computer". The TRS-80 computer was discontinued in January 1981.
Gil Amelio CEO of Apple (1996)
Gil Amelio became Apple's CEO on February 2, 1996, replacing Michael Spindler. Amelio has been a member of Apple's board of directors since 1994, after taking the post of director he decided, among other things, to put an end to the company's financial problems. Among the steps he took at that time were, for example, reducing the number of employees of the company by one third or ending the Copland project. As part of the effort to develop a new operating system, Amelio started negotiations with the company Be Inc. on the purchase of its BeOS operating system. However, this did not happen in the end, and Amelio began to negotiate on this topic with the company NeXT, which Steve Jobs was behind. The negotiations finally resulted in the acquisition of NeXT in 1997.
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