In our kick - off selection from the gorgeous deep brown board book Core Memory , shoot by Mark Richards and write by John Alderman , we memorize of the Cinderella - like beginning of the Apple saga .
Name : Apple I
Year make : 1976
Creator : Apple Computer Company
Price : $ 666.66
Memory : 4 KB semiconducting material
Processor : MOS engineering science 6502
Of course people would want their own figurer . But when Steve Wozniak extend a design for one to his employer , Hewlett - Packard , it was disdain . With fate on his side , Wozniak introduced the Apple I to Silicon Valley ’s Homebrew Computer Club , even if it was a little more than a kit . Kits were popular with hobbyist , and the offering were often craft by user onto wooden boards , as pictured here .
sense that the market for a personal computer went beyond multitude who had the time to put together their own , Wozniak ( or “ Woz ” as he is known , and patently sign his name ) and his Quaker Steve Jobs sold fifty pre - built Apple I computers to The Byte Shop in Mountain View . If the biblical allusion of the price and the image of enticement represented by an apple were n’t enough , many believed that “ Apple ” was a reference to the Beatles ’ Apple Corps book label . All of these cultural markers conveyed that this computer , and the company that made it , was for nerveless people who were in on the joke and quick to take the rein of technical power — or at least have a scrap more playfulness with it . The estimator industry was begin to make serious inroads into popular culture — or was it the verso ? It was Steve Jobs whose foxy selling sensation pushed all these themes into play . Not coincidentally , the idea of the computer “ revivalist ” proselytizing about new hard- or software take hold at Apple .
About two hundred models of the Apple I were sold — not as many as the Altair , but to Jobs and Wozniak , they build the concept and bring home the bacon the fuel to form a company to launch the Apple II , a runaway succeeder . And some authoritative lessons were memorize : Maybe it was the deficiency of a case that shanghai on Jobs the importance of a good - front box . Either way , no one has done more than Apple to turn the dwelling - brewed computer into the beautiful , consumer - friendly machines , from the Macintosh to the iPod .
Core Memoryis a photographic exploration of theComputer History Museum ’s assembling , highlighting some of the most interesting pieces in the chronicle of computing machine . These excerpts were used with permission of the publisher .
The picture ( top ) was taken byMark Richards , whose work has seem in The New York Times Sunday Magazine , Fortune , Smithsonian , Life and BusinessWeek . The middle - confect is come with by verbal description of each artefact to cover the gadget characteristic and background of each objective , written by John Alderman who has pass over the culture of gamy - technical school lifestyle since 1993 , notably for Mondo 2000 , HotWired and Wired News . A preface is provided by the Computer History Museum ’s Senior Curator Dag Spicer .
Or go see the real things at theComputer History Museumin Mountain View , Calif. Special thanks to Fiona !
Gizmodo ’ 79is a workweek - long jubilation of appliance and geekdom 30 years ago , as the analog years gave agency to the digital , and most of our favorite toys were just being carry .
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