Which came first, Apple, or Windows?

Question

Were there any other brands of computers?

Answer 1

i can remember from a trivia show that apple came first.

Answer 2

This gets a little tricky, so lets go backwards
Windows was introduced to the IBM PC compatible computer in the mid-80's after the Apple MacIntosh was introduced in 1984 (famous SuperBowl Ad).
But the Apple MacIntosh followed the Apple II and III computers and the Lisa. The Lisa was an expensive ($10,000) failure that was modelled after the Xerox Star developmental machine that introduced the idea of a mouse and a graphic interface with drop down menus.
The IBM PC was introduced in 1980 without Windows with 64K (not M) of memory after the Apple II in various forms had been on the market for 3 years.
At the time the IBM PC was introduced, there were several dozen computers on the market, most of which used an operating system called CP/M (Control Program/Microcomputer) that IBM's PCDOS was closely modelled after. In fact a version of CP/M was available for the PC, but cost much more than PCDOS and thus didn't sell. Some other machines that were around included, Atari and Osborne.
The Apple II was introduced in 1977 and was the first appliance microcomputer (that you could take home, plugin and use) along with the TRS-80 from Radio Shack. The Apple II, from the start, could take accessories and displayed in color on a TV. The Apple IIe which I started with cost $2000 with 48K of memory and one diskdrive. Visicalc, the original computer spreadsheet, made the Apple II very popular with users for a while, if not with managers.
About the time the Apple II was introduced, IBM produced the IBM 5110 which cost $30,000, came with 32K of memory, had 1 Meg 8" floppy drives and no one could add accessories except IBM. The IBM 5100 preceeded it and had a tape cartridge drive. Officially, the first IBM PC was the 5150.
At the time the Apple II was introduced, there were many CP/M computers on the market which were almost entirely based on a plug in bus from SW Tech or a different one from Altair. These were rectangular boxes with added keyboards and glass monitors or teletypes. There were a number of single board computers like the KIM-1 that was my first.
The microcomputer is considered by most people to have started with the Altair 8800, shown on the cover of Popular Science in January 1975.

Answer 3

i would have to say that apple was the first take home computer but IBM was the first computer and bill gates and his friends made windows for it but i'm not sure when so between apple and windows..........apple was first

Answer 4

Apple is a computer, windows is an operating system. If you are trying to say Mac os:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS
Windows:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows
Mac os came out 1 year before windows.
about 1-2% of the planet uses mac, over 90% use windows.

Answer 5

I'm 100% shure windows came first windows is owned by Microsoft and they have been around way longer then apple!

Windows came first and there were no other brands before it.

Answer 6

Windows 95 came first.

Answer 7

Windows came out first and i remember when i was in grade school in the 70s we used a PET computer it was really big and had a slot on the side for a cassette it was huge.....lol.....we thought we were big sh it when we had our name running up & down the screen

Answer 8

commodore ,IBM, Sinclair BTW windows is an operating system not a computer brand

Answer 9

apple!

Answer 10

windows, trust me