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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. keyboards... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    And Apple still does not provide a keyboard standard. You have to pay to get one. At least it comes with the case.

  2. I'm celebrating by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    By buying a new pc with interchanagable modular parts that can be upgraded however i wish from any mfg with the best price/preformance without those mfgs telling me what i can and can't do with the hardware and software that i bought. For half the price of an apple. Which incidentally now also uses that same exact hardware. But only if it has been blessed by his holyness The Jobs.

  3. Who's not a geek by macraig · · Score: 0, Troll

    Being a geek is about values. Only one of the Two Steves is a geek. Steve Wozniak is a geek; Steve Jobs is not. Wozniak would be reveling in gadgets and tech whether it made him a pile of money or not; Jobs would head for the exit the moment it was clear to him the grass was greener elsewhere. Jobs would be perfectly happy doing anything, in the complete absence of anything geeky, if it made him filthy rich and popular.

    Wozniak is a geek. Jobs is just a... salesman.