website/content/museum/apple-1.md

title, categories, types, origins, years, cpus, params

title	categories	types	origins	years	cpus	params
APPLE 1	Computers	Home Computer	U.S.A.	1976	MOS Technology 6502	name company company_name specs tabs photos emulators links docs comments oc_id source APPLE 1 /companies/apple Apple label value NAME APPLE 1 label value MANUFACTURER Apple label value TYPE Home Computer label value ORIGIN U.S.A. label value YEAR April 1976 label value END OF PRODUCTION 1977 label value KEYBOARD No keyboard (sold separately) label value CPU MOS Technology 6502 label value SPEED 1 MHz label value RAM 8 KB label value VRAM 1 KB label value ROM 256 bytes label value TEXT MODES 40 x 24 label value GRAPHIC MODES None label value COLORS None label value SOUND None label value I/O PORTS Monitor, Expansion connector, Keyboard connector, Cassette board connector label value POWER SUPPLY PSU built-in label value PRICE $666.66 (USA, 1976) photos emulators links docs title subtitle text image MOTHER BOARD null title url platform text MESS (Multiple Emulator Super System) http://www.mess.org/ Windows Also emulates the Apple 1! title url text WWW.APPLE1REGISTRY.COM http://WWW.APPLE1REGISTRY.COM A list of all known Apple-1 computers and much more title url text Apple-History.com http://www.apple-history.com/ This wonderful site has a page about the Apple 1 title url text Web Wiz CAPTCHA http://www.webwizcaptcha.com All about Apple II user groups title url cover text OPERATION MANUAL http://www.1000bit.net/support/manuali/manuali.asp null [**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 url cover text APPLE BASIC USERS MANUAL http://www.chez.com/apple1/Apple1project/ null [**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 :** author date text Achim (Germany) Wednesday 23rd June 2021 All known Apple-1 are listed in the Apple-1 Registry. https://www.apple1registry.com author date text Joe Cassara (USA) Tuesday 4th November 2014 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 date text GSGeek (Quebec, Canada) Monday 22nd April 2013 new author date text mc shop (itv ad) Monday 22nd April 2013 newead dkfas sdkf\ dsg dgfsdfg dsfsdfs dfss\ dsgsd dsf sdf sd\ caosed author date text cfg Monday 22nd April 2013 dfg author date text rj (ulster uk) Tuesday 22nd November 2011 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 date text Dana (Los Angeles California) Monday 10th January 2011 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 date text Anders (Sweden) Saturday 6th November 2010 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 date text Artfact Thursday 5th August 2010 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 date text Xterra (USA) Tuesday 6th July 2010 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 date text Daniel Tuesday 6th January 2009 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 date text Wills ward (USA) Sunday 3rd December 2006 Is it made out of wood? author date text Niles (Spain) Wednesday 2nd March 2005 There is a real Apple 1 at the Science Museum of London. I was shocked when I saw it! :P author date text Stephen (California) Thursday 10th February 2005 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 date text ernest (mexico) Monday 22nd November 2004 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 date text ernest (mexico) Wednesday 19th May 2004 what was the EPROM card for??? author date text GSGeek (Quebec, Canada) Thursday 8th April 2004 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 date text Cuomo (Toronto) Thursday 25th March 2004 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 date text Jon Jarmon (Tacoma Washington) Sunday 26th October 2003 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. 67 url date https://web.archive.org/web/20230427093615/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=67 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 ][.