Apple might be the most successful company in the world and in the number one of the Forbes List, but it was not always like this.Starting in a garage in California, Apple had its first hit in the form of the venerable Apple II.Today the Operating System of the iconic machine went open to the public, after a good 35 years since its release, back in April 1977.
Apple`s first mass-market computer needed a cassette tape for data storage and had just 4K of memory. The Computer History Museum is now making the original DOS source code for the Apple`s historic computer available to the public.
The code was donated by Paul Laughton, who was the creator of the original operating system. Laughton was working to a strict deadline set by Steve Jobs in order to make Steve Wozniak`s disk controller capable of assembling programs.
Paul Laughton worked just seven weeks to complete the project and made a quite high at the time $13,000 for it.
