CEO Tim Cook reveals the first Apple product he used; Details inside

By Team Newsable | First Published Jul 23, 2021, 4:16 PM IST

While speaking to a local radio station Mediacorp Class 95, Cook stated that his first-ever Apple product was Apple II which he used as an undergraduate engineering student at Auburn University.

Apple CEO Tim Cook has revealed the first Apple product he ever used on the occasion of the company completing 40 years. While speaking to a local radio station Mediacorp Class 95, Cook stated that his first-ever Apple product was Apple II which he used as an undergraduate engineering student at Auburn University.

The CEO informed that the product was not his own but liked the machine after using it. The Apple II was an improved version of Apple I launched by Apple co-founders Stever Wozniak and Steve Jobs in the late 1970s.

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Recalling his initial days, the CEO said that one of his first jobs upon joining Apple in 1998 was to visit Singapore to validate the production line for the original iMac, which was manufactured in Singapore.

Going technical into the product, Apple II used a MOS 6502 chip for its central processing unit (CPU) and came with 4KB RAM and could be extended up to 48 KB RAM. Originally, its external storage was on cassette after which the company introduced an external floppy drive.

Talking about the initial days of the company, in 1981, Apple had set up its first office in Singapore and currently, it is investing in the app industry. The Singapore government has reportedly mandated that primary school students must be taught coding for at least 10 hours.

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