Episode 105 - Apple's Growing Pains
Advent of Computing
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The Perfect Storm: The Apple 3's Failure Mode
The Apple 3 was slated to use a National Semiconductor's chip, the MM58167B. The real-time component means that it keeps time even if the computer is turned off and unplugged. Take VisiCalc as an example: It would be really nice to calculate how old each order is.
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