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The Apple I was one of the very first computers personal and the first to combine a keyboard, a microprocessor and a connection to a monitor.

History

Conceived by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs in their Californian garage, it was sold like first product of Apple in April 1976. Its selling price was then of 666,66 $. Approximately 200 units were produced. Around fifty of them were sold by an electronic store of of Palo Alto. With the difference of other computers amateurs of this time which were sold in kit, Apple I was an assembled chart containing approximately thirty chips.

However, to make a functional computer of it, the users were to still add a case, a food, a keyboard, and a screen. An optional chart providing an interface for a cassette player left later, for a price of 75 $.

The use of a keyboard and a monitor distinguished Apple. The competing machines such as the Altair 8800 were generally programmed with switches and used twinkling lights for posting. That made of Apple I an innovating machine for its time, in spite of its lack of graphics or sound functions. The production was stopped in March 1977, with the appearance of its successor, the APPLE II. Apple I is sometimes credited like the first personal computer to be sold in an entirely assembled form. However, some think that this honor belongs légitimemement to other machines, such as the Datapoint 2200.

It remains between thirty and fifty specimens of Apple I, making of him an article of collection. An Apple I was sold for 50.000 $ with the biddings in 1999. However, the average costs of an Apple I are between 14.000 $ and 16.000 $. A compatible clone logiciellement of Apple I, produced by using modern components, was marketed in quantity limited in 2003 at a price from approximately 200 $.

Technical specifications

External bonds

  • Manual original of Apple I

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