The original Apple Computer, also known retroactively as the Apple I, or Apple-1, is a personal computer released by the Apple Computer Company ( now Apple Inc .) in 1976.

The Apple I was Apple's first product, and to finance its creation, Jobs sold his only means of transportation, a VW van and Wozniak sold his HP-65 calculator for $ 500.

The Apple I went on sale in July 1976 at a price of, because Wozniak " liked repeating digits " and because they originally sold it to a local shop for $ 500 plus a one-third markup.

Unlike other hobbyist computers of its day, which were sold as kits, the Apple I was a fully assembled circuit board containing about 60 + chips.

Introductory advertisement for the Apple I Computer

This made the Apple I an innovative machine for its day.

As Wozniak was the only person who could answer most customer support questions about the computer, the company offered Apple I owners discounts and trade-ins for Apple IIs to persuade them to return their computers, contributing to their scarcity.

As of 2012, less than 50 Apple I computers ( with only six in working order ) are believed to exist, making it a very rare collector's item.

< li > An Apple I reportedly sold for $ 50, 000 USD at auction in 1999.

< li > In November 2010, an Apple I with serial number 82 sold for £ 133, 250 ($ 210, 000 ) at Christie's auction house in London.

< li > On June 15, 2012, a working Apple I was sold at auction by Sotheby's for a record $ 374, 500, more than double the expected price .</ li >

A software-compatible clone of the Apple I ( Replica 1 ), produced using modern components, was released in 2003 at a price of around $ 200.

The circuit board of a fully assembled Apple I

Apple I Replica Creation: Back to the Garage.

* Apple I Owners Club

* Apple I Operational Manual

* Macintosh Prehistory: The Apple I

* John Calande III blog – Building the Apple I clone

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Apple started the Taligent project in 1989, with the goal of building a NeXT-like operating system for the Macintosh, with collaboration from both HP and IBM.

Another design site which worked on the project was in Austin, Texas that was created by some ex-DEC designers returning from Apple Computer and Motorola.

Finally released from Virgin, they formed their own label, Idea Records, and embarked on the recording of the ambitious " Apple Venus " project, a collection of the best material written during the band's dispute with Virgin.

The Apple Public Source License, as it turns out, fails to pass the third standard that Free and Open Source Software licenses are held to: the Debian Free Software Guidelines promulgated by the Debian project, an influential volunteer-run GNU / Linux distribution.

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WAIS Inc. was originally developed as a joint project between Apple Computer, Peat Markwick, Dow Jones, and Thinking Machines.

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* The Graphing Calculator Story A story of how Pacific Tech ’ s Graphing Calculator started out as a " skunkworks " project in Apple Computer

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There is a Apple Inc. data center and solar farm project in the planning stages.

Jef Raskin ( March 9, 1943 – February 26, 2005 ) was an American human – computer interface expert best known for starting the Macintosh project for Apple in the late 1970s.

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Some Apple improvements to the KHTML code are merged back into the Konqueror project.

The project was begun by Dhuey and Berkeley without the knowledge of Apple head Steve Jobs ( who opposed features like expansion slots ).

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OpenDoc was initially created by Apple Computer in 1992 after Microsoft approached Apple asking for input on a proposed OLE II project.

Apple was also involved in the Taligent project during some of this period, which offered somewhat similar functionality although based on very different underlying mechanisms.