st_goliath4 hours ago
If you are interested in handmaking a replica, some enthusiasts have already replicated the PCB design and there is a zip archive with Gerber files floating around: https://www.applefritter.com/content/apple-1-replica-gerber-...
From what it looks like, the difficulty shouldn't be in getting a board made or soldering them, but sourcing the parts. Other than the odd 74 series ICs, the design includes some (I think memory?) chips that are nowadays more difficult to find than the 6502 & 6520.
Frenchgeek4 hours ago
Not sure if it was already posted here (most likely), and it's for a C64 but: https://youtu.be/MG3j_6DBCIE
burnt-resistor2 hours ago
[Insert obligatory personal although almost meaningless anecdotes about seeing Woz's castle-themed house when it was first built and almost running over SJ with my VW Westfalia.]
[And literally almost physically colliding into Tim Cook in Los Altos where Garage Technology Ventures used to be.]
[If you need someone important ran into accidentally, I guess that's about my only natural talent.]
hopelite8 hours ago
Does Apple have one of these? It seems they definitely have the money to buy it.
nielsbot4 hours ago
There was one on display at their original campus for a while but i believe it was donated to the Computer History Museum
volemo2 hours ago
If they do, I’m considering Severance a documentary.
hcfman3 hours ago
Maybe they spent it all on the Birkin bag?
lwansbrough7 hours ago
Poor Woz perpetually haunted by Steve’s shadow.
bigyabai7 hours ago
His departure from Apple feels like potent foreshadowing of the Apple Steve envisioned. I remember feeling confused hearing the Apple II story growing up, but as I mature in the industry I really empathize with Woz's lack of patience for bad administration. Feels likely that Steve coveted that attitude, maybe a bit too much for an impromptu business administrator.
F7F7F75 hours ago
Apple is unabashedly, outwardly, privacy focused. Just their law enforcement policies put them way ahead of their competitors. But this argument usually deteriorates to "they are all the same!" so I won't even bother making a case for them.
What I will say that if Apple is what Woz feared. Then what's OpenAI and X/Grok and Google and Facebook (hell bench on world domination)? Unimaginable?
Chorus They are all the same! Chorus
Apple helped create the black rectangle monolith appliances-in-a-smartphone plague. But they are not even in the top 10 list of companies I'm currently worried about. They are far more embarrassing than dangerous as of late.
cornholio4 hours ago
I think you are attributing to choice what can easily be explained by contigent circumstances.
Apple is privacy focused because it's a lifestyle and tech fashion company that competes with internet data brokers. Apple's instincts for monopoly power, locking down the market and choking life out of their complements is second to none.
Given the opportunity, all successful tech CEOs are bred and selected to burn the world down if the result is aligned to their power goals.
hcfman3 hours ago
I'm kinda torn between the Birkin bag and this.
belter2 hours ago
Go with the bag, since there is no evidence to support these claims by Sotheby's
Based on historical records, the evidence suggests that only less than 150 to 200 Apple-1 computers were ever made and the assembly team was Wozniak who did most technical assembly, with help from Daniel Kottke, Patty Jobs (Steve's sister), and occasional friends.
Also....the actual video title is: "The Finest Operational Apple-1 Computer in Existence - Handmade by Steve Jobs - Is Now at Sotheby's" an even more wild claim. Then editorialized here to be called in the title of this submission: " Apple-1 Computer, handmade by Jobs and Woz"
The video has low credibility, and changing the title wont change that.
Jobs role has always been reported as business/sales focused rather than hands-on assembly.
allanrbo6 hours ago
Handmade by Jobs, not Woz?
dvrp7 hours ago
...and Wozniak.
mig396 hours ago
Yeah, the video mentions both names. Whoever made the title didn't include Wozniak, but the video definitely does.
tomhow5 hours ago
We updated the title to credit both, thanks!
dvrp5 hours ago
That's awesome; making the world a better place one title diff at a time haha.
black_132 days ago
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