Creative Benders
The Apple 2 was the first computer that came with a keyboard and video display. Apple II was the third. Today it seems hard to believe, given how normal laptops have become, but during the early days of computers, the Apple II shocked the world because of one thing: its hard color. It also required half the chips of the Apple I. Something that seemed impossible to do. The breakthrough idea that lead to the creation of this came to Steve Wozniak late one night. He recalled that moment saying: “I had been up four nights all night long. Steve Jobs and I got manic... because your mind gets in this new creative state and it thinks of ideas that you normally just throw out.” Hands down, working on one problem for 4 days, he came up with the idea to use a little cheap (>$1) part to take the data and produce color that looked like a TV. It was their bender to come up with a solution that lead to the creative breakthrough.