The Apple 1 - designed and hand-built by Steve Wozniak.
The thing Wozniaks friend Steve Jobs would run around selling
in Palo Alto, CA. back in 1976.
The Apple 1 were not just a kit, it actually had a fully assembled
circuit board with 30 chips.
Still, to make a working computer, users had to add a case,
power supply, keyboard, not to mention display?
- Wonder, howmany ever made it work?
Storage came somewhat later - Keying in the
programs by hand before each use must have been great fun though?
The
Apple II, 1977, already kind
of looks like an Apple.
The
owners club is just
another uber cool place to be (on the internet).
And again, I read all of this stuff with emulators. The crazy people out there
apparently also have emulators for this, so they can
run Apple 1 stuff on their 2009 PC? Or Iphone?
October 2009
www.simonlaub.net
Pics from visit to the Computer Museum, Mountain View, CA. - Visible Storage display items.