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title: APPLE 1
categories:
- Computers
types:
- Home Computer
origins:
- U.S.A.
years:
- '1976'
cpus:
- MOS Technology 6502
params:
name: APPLE 1
company: /companies/apple
company_name: Apple
specs:
- label: NAME
value: APPLE 1
- label: MANUFACTURER
value: Apple
- label: TYPE
value: Home Computer
- label: ORIGIN
value: U.S.A.
- label: YEAR
value: April 1976
- label: END OF PRODUCTION
value: '1977'
- label: KEYBOARD
value: No keyboard (sold separately)
- label: CPU
value: MOS Technology 6502
- label: SPEED
value: 1 MHz
- label: RAM
value: 8 KB
- label: VRAM
value: 1 KB
- label: ROM
value: 256 bytes
- label: TEXT MODES
value: 40 x 24
- label: GRAPHIC MODES
value: None
- label: COLORS
value: None
- label: SOUND
value: None
- label: I/O PORTS
value: Monitor, Expansion connector, Keyboard connector, Cassette board connector
- label: POWER SUPPLY
value: PSU built-in
- label: PRICE
value: $666.66 (USA, 1976)
tabs:
- photos
- emulators
- links
- docs
photos:
- title: MOTHER BOARD
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: null
emulators:
- title: MESS (Multiple Emulator Super System)
url: http://www.mess.org/
platform: Windows
text: Also emulates the Apple 1!
links:
- title: WWW.APPLE1REGISTRY.COM
url: http://WWW.APPLE1REGISTRY.COM
text: A list of all known Apple-1 computers and much more
- title: Apple-History.com
url: http://www.apple-history.com/
text: This wonderful site has a page about the Apple 1
- title: Web Wiz CAPTCHA
url: http://www.webwizcaptcha.com
text: All about Apple II user groups
docs:
- title: OPERATION MANUAL
url: http://www.1000bit.net/support/manuali/manuali.asp
cover: null
text: |-
[**OPERATION MANUAL**](http://www.1000bit.net/support/manuali/manuali.asp)written by Apple
 type of document : PDF\
 size : 1.7 MB\
 source : [www.1000bit.net](http://www.1000bit.net/)
**... READ THE ONLINE VERSION BY CLICKING BELOW :**
- title: APPLE BASIC USERS MANUAL
url: http://www.chez.com/apple1/Apple1project/
cover: null
text: |-
[**APPLE BASIC USERS MANUAL**](http://www.chez.com/apple1/Apple1project/)written by Apple
 compiled/archived by Apple 1 project\
 type of document : PDF\
 source : [http://www.chez.com/apple1](http://www.chez.com/apple1)
**... READ THE ONLINE VERSION BY CLICKING BELOW :**
comments:
- author: Achim (Germany)
date: Wednesday 23rd June 2021
text: All known Apple-1 are listed in the Apple-1 Registry. https://www.apple1registry.com
- author: Joe Cassara (USA)
date: Tuesday 4th November 2014
text: |-
The story of Apple and Commodore is a little more nuanced than what you''ve written in this entry. For a more complete account, I suggest you check out Brian Bagnall''s book \_Commodore: A Company on the Edge\_.
Jack''s (actually, Chuck Peddle''s) interest has nothing to do with this machine''s "popularity".
- author: GSGeek (Quebec, Canada)
date: Monday 22nd April 2013
text: new
- author: mc shop (itv ad)
date: Monday 22nd April 2013
text: |-
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dsgsd dsf sdf sd\
caosed
- author: cfg
date: Monday 22nd April 2013
text: dfg
- author: rj (ulster uk)
date: Tuesday 22nd November 2011
text: |-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v$EmwW_6kUdHw
please post this link to youtube\
hope yu can find your way to the real great sam sites on the net
- author: Dana (Los Angeles California)
date: Monday 10th January 2011
text: I owned an apple 1. It came with 4 K of memory and I added another 4K so I could load Basic, from tape of course. I sold it to a computer shop in Reseda California about15 years ago, for $100. I wish I had it back now.
- author: Anders (Sweden)
date: Saturday 6th November 2010
text: 'There is a site on the internet that sells a replica of the Apple I that you can use to try it out yourself: http://www.brielcomputers.com/replica1.html'
- author: Artfact
date: Thursday 5th August 2010
text: |-
At Auction on Artfact LIVE, August 16 is AN APPLE I (APPLE-1) EARLY PERSONAL COMPUTER WITH OPERATION MANUAL, designed and hand-built by Steve Wozniak, Apple Computer Co., Pala Alto, CA, c. 1976, the fully assembled circuit board is displayed as a wall plaque with metal frame and measuring 9 x 15.5 inches. History behind the item - About 200 units were produced with an estimated 30-50 still known to exist.
Check it out!!
http://www.artfact.com/auction-lot/an-apple-i-apple-1-early-personal-computer-with-1-c-b8a066d9bb
- author: Xterra (USA)
date: Tuesday 6th July 2010
text: According to Wikipedia, the Apple I was basically just a motherboard, without case, without keyboard, without monitor. It seems like a bunch of work to me! Nowadays, you could buy a "build-your-own" computer kit, but it wouldn''t be any kind of work like this, hoo hoo!
- author: Daniel
date: Tuesday 6th January 2009
text: No, the Apple I did not come in a case. Whoever bought it, and wanted to, would have to build it. The wooden case is just a surviving, and pretty, example.
- author: Wills ward (USA)
date: Sunday 3rd December 2006
text: Is it made out of wood?
- author: Niles (Spain)
date: Wednesday 2nd March 2005
text: There is a real Apple 1 at the Science Museum of London. I was shocked when I saw it! :P
- author: Stephen (California)
date: Thursday 10th February 2005
text: I am into the apple I and similar microcomputers, and out of nostalgia I want to design an apple I-based microcomputer with a casset interface and make my own programming language and burn it in a ROM (as crazy as it sounds, it's true!) Although the only way I have ever even played with an apple I is through an emulator, I still think they are very cool indeed!
- author: ernest (mexico)
date: Monday 22nd November 2004
text: 'COUMO: the way to save data in the apple I was in audio casettes, with a ordinary casette recorder and the casette interface, visit applefriter.com'
- author: ernest (mexico)
date: Wednesday 19th May 2004
text: what was the EPROM card for???
- author: GSGeek (Quebec, Canada)
date: Thursday 8th April 2004
text: Counterfeits... hmmm, maybe some creative people could clone the motherboard then stuff it with appropriate IC's of that era and voila! A new generation of Apple 1s. Getting the BASIC PROM content could be trickier tough (and getting software for it :^).
- author: Cuomo (Toronto)
date: Thursday 25th March 2004
text: |-
i was looking at the Apple 1 and figured out that it had some memory and a keyboard...but what was it used for?\
What did the user do with the saved data? could you save data?\
please explain why anyone would spend money on this computer!
- author: Jon Jarmon (Tacoma Washington)
date: Sunday 26th October 2003
text: |-
The Apple 1 is one of the most sought after collector items for vintage computer collectors.\
It's value is around $30,000.Only around 250 were ever sold.Beware of counterfeits though.\
Most counterfeits are just Apple 2's components in a wooden box and are easy to differentiate from an original apple 1.\
The original Apple LISA(The first model only) can be worth upwards to $10,000 with original packing manuals,software and in excellent operational condition.
oc_id: 67
source:
url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230427093615/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=67
date: '2023-04-27'
---
The story of the development of the Apple 1 has became a "legend". Here's how it goes:
Steve Wozniak, was working for Hewlett-Packard at the time, wanted to build his own computer. He couldn't afford the Intel 8080 CPU (this CPU was very popular then, as it was used in the Altair 8800 & IMSAI 8080, but was pretty expensive). He would have used the Motorola 6800 but it was also much too expensive. Finally he decided to build his computer around the MOS 6502 (which was pretty compatible with the Motorola 6800).
The computer was easier to use than the Altair: notably, the Apple 1 had a keyboard connector and could display characters on a TV whereas the Altair used LEDs for display. The display rate was very slow, only 60 characters (!) per second.
Steve Jobs, who programmed the game "Breakout" for Atari (with a little help from "the Woz"), was interested in this computer. Together they created the Apple Computer Company and tried to sell their computer. Paul Terrell, the owner of a computer shop, was interested in this computer, but fully assembled (the Apple 1 was sold "naked", no monitor, no power supply, no keyboard, no tape drive, etc.) and with a cassette interface, which Wozniak designed. He sold it with the Basic he wrote soon after.
They sold about two hundred of these units. This machine was so popular that Jack Tramiel of Commodore (!) offered to buy Apple. Apple was, at the time, a major purchaser of MOS 6502 processors and Commodore owned MOS Technologies. Wozniak wanted $15,000 more than Tramiel offered. Needless to say, the deal fell through.
The nowadays mythic Apple 1 was followed the next year by the [Apple \]\[](/museum/apple-ii/).