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.

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

* Apple I project on www. sbprojects. com

* Macintosh Prehistory: The Apple I

* John Calande III blog – Building the Apple I clone

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Apple paid $ 429 million in cash which went to the initial investors and 1. 5 million Apple shares which went to Steve Jobs.

When Steve Wozniak developed the first disk drives for the Apple II, Raskin went back to his contacts at UCSD and encouraged them to port the UCSD P-System operating system ( incorporating a version of the Pascal programming language ) to it, which Apple later licensed and shipped as Apple Pascal.

I went into the Apple shop just before Hey Jude was being released.

Klein went on to manage Apple, by virtue of his three-to-one support from the Beatles, Paul McCartney being the only group member opposed to his involvement.

In 2006 the label was again newsworthy, as the long-running dispute between Apple Records ' parent company and Apple Inc. went to the High Court ( see Apple Corps v Apple Computer ).

Then, he went to build software for companies such as Apple and Atari.

Bob Yannes, creator of the SID synthesizer chip used in the Commodore 64, went on to design the Ensoniq 5503 DOC synthesizer used in the Apple IIGS.

When Apple began to adapt NeXTSTEP to become Mac OS X, both the operating system and the application went through various stages as it was developed.

Apple argued that they had a copyright claim on the look and feel of their software, and even went so far as to sue Microsoft, alleging that the Windows operating system was illegally copying their look and feel.

Apple introduced an unprecedented number of new Macintosh models during the System 7 era, leading to some confusion over which System Enabler went with which computer ( s ).

The original AppleLink, which went online in 1985, was a service available only to Apple employees and dealers, and shortly thereafter to Apple University Consortium members.

The Courtyard in Bawtry is a modern development hosting a variety of shops and businesses The entire development was designed by Graham Smith Design, who went onto win the " Green Apple Awards 2005 " in recognition of the efforts to preserve and enhance the heritage of Bawtry.

At the age of 17, after directing two video productions, she went on to direct the movie The Apple.

Breakout directly influenced Steve Wozniak's design for the Apple II computer — " A lot of features of the Apple II went in because I had designed Breakout for Atari.

Applesoft II, which was made available on cassette and disk and in the ROM of the Apple II Plus and subsequent models, was released in 1978.

Apple solved this problem using an AppleBus-like solution, using a single port on the back of the computer into which the user could plug an adaptor for any given cabling system.

This FriendlyNet system was based on the industry-standard Attachment Unit Interface, but deliberately chose a non-standard connector that was smaller and easier to use, which they called " Apple AUI ", or AAUI.

In 1988 Apple had released MacTCP, a system that allowed the Mac to support TCP / IP on machines with suitable Ethernet hardware.

As the world quickly moved to IP for both LAN and WAN uses, Apple was faced with maintaining two increasingly outdated code bases on an ever-wider group of machines as well as the introduction of the PowerPC based machines.

As Apple abandoned many of these product categories, and all new systems were based on IP, AppleTalk became less and less common.

The second incarnation was a much smaller unit the width of two 5¼ " floppy drives stacked on top of each other, and the third incarnation looked like a flattened Apple with a built-in keyboard.

The Apple II computer on display at the Museum of the Moving Image ( New York City ) | Museum of the Moving Image in New York City

On January 26, 2009, MTV and Apple made all three collections available on the iTunes Store.

There were several GUI-based BBSes on the Apple Macintosh platform, including TeleFinder and FirstClass, but these remained widely used only in the Mac market.

* The Intel versions of Mac OS X from versions 10. 4 ( Tiger ) to 10. 6 ( Snow Leopard ) have Rosetta, a binary translation program that allows applications meant for use on PowerPC Macs to run on Apple systems that use Intel processors.

Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani in 1997 signed legislation designating the southwest corner of West 54th Street and Broadway, the corner on which John J. Fitz Gerald lived from 1934 to 1963, as " Big Apple Corner.

* The Big Apple Detailed research findings on the term's history from amateur etymologist Barry Popik

Initially designed to run on AT & T Hobbit-based hardware, BeOS was later modified to run on PowerPC-based processors: first Be's own systems, later Apple Inc .' s PowerPC Reference Platform and Common Hardware Reference Platform, with the hope that Apple would purchase or license BeOS as a replacement for its then aging Mac OS.

RMCL ( based on MCL 5. 2 ) runs on Intel-based Apple Macintosh computers using the Rosetta binary translator from Apple.

However, the battle was in vain, as neither platform captured a significant share of the world computer market and only the Apple Macintosh would survive the industry-wide shift to Microsoft Windows running on PC clones.