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Remembering the Apple I

Posted by samzenpus on from the back-in-the-day dept.

harrymcc writes "This month marks the 35th anniversary of Apple--and the 35th anniversary of the Apple I, its first computer. It was a single-board computer that was unimaginably more rudimentary than any modern Mac — it didn't even come with a case and keyboard standard — but in its design, sales and marketing, we can see the beginnings of the Apple approach that continues to this day. I'm celebrating with a look at this significant machine."

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  1. Re:My favorite Apple contribution to society is by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    (heresay following, I may be wrong) At one point Steve Jobs said it is cool for 3rd party developers to make applications.

    And followed it with "But we'll take 30%".