Category: Apple-1

A working Apple-1 computer recently listed by Bonhams Auction House has sold for a world record 905,000 USD.  This particular Apple-1, originally sold by the Byte Shop in Mountain View, Ca., was one of 50 hand built by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs in the famed Apple garage, is one of only 15 known to actually function.   This Apple-1 will reside at it’s new home, The Henry Ford Museum. For more on the Bonham’s auction, check out the auction website…

The crew at the Retro Computing Roundtable have posted Episode 83rd their podcast.  This weeks panelists include Paul Hagstrom hosting the Roundtable with Michael Mulhern and Mike Whalen.  This week the panel discusses a number of Apple related items including Which Apple II, if you can only have one? Why didn’t 6502 computers get faster? History of Personal Computing podcast Newly discovered Apple I up for auction Chris Osborne on using modems without a land line and his Level 29…

Auction House Bonhams has another Apple-1 in its possession which will be auctioned off on October 22nd.  While there are approximately 60 of the Steve Wozniak created Apple-1 motherboards, only about a dozen or so have been shown to work.  Previous auctions of  similarly functioning machines have fetched anywhere between 385,000 and 650,000 USD. The Apple-1 belonged to John Anderson who was the Founder of the Cincinnati AppleSiders User Group who kept the machine enclosed in a glass case for…

Legendary Apple II virtual machine programmer David Schmenk has returned from his secret underground Apple II lair to reveal a pre-release announcement of the next-generation virtual machine for the Apple II family: PLASMA 123. It is so called because the same code segments will run, without change, on the Apple I, the II, and the Apple III. PLASMA is the system behind the upcoming game for Apple II, Lawless Legends. Mr. Schmenk states that he has developed new interpreter technology that is…

After a record setting sale at auction of an Apple-1 computer this past month, another one has appeared on the auction block.  With the previous Apple-1 going for more than $671,000 USD, Christies isn’t even messing with a low number for this auction start.  Initial bids for the machine will begin at $300,000 USD and according to reports around the web, is expected to raised more than $500,000 USD. The Apple-1 being auctioned as part of a collection entitled “FIRST…

With the Apple-1 computer being in big demand since the death of Steve Jobs, the German auction house Brecker has pulled in a record haul for a working version of the famed computer.  Hand built in the garage of Steve Wozniak, the Apple-1 was only produced in a short production of less than 200 units.  Of these 200, only 48 are known to exist today and of those, working models are even a rarer item with less than ten units…

Book Title:  The New Apple II User’s GuideAuthor: David FinniganPages: 775 In 1993, Apple Inc. discontinued the Apple IIgs computer and all production of software and manuals for the Apple II series of computers came to a screeching halt.  Within a year, 95% of all Apple II software publishers were for the most part either shut down or they had moved on to publishing materials for the IBM PC or the Macintosh.  A sturdy handful of folks however, continued keeping…

Sotheby’s Auction House sold an Apple-I Computer this week for the staggering price of $374,500 USD.  The hammer price of this auction more than crushed the previous record of approximately $210,000 USD for an Apple-I. The Apple-I computer was created in 1976 by Steve Wozniak and was the first machine sold by Apple, Inc.  While the machine was really just a board, many hobbyists were able to assemble the machine into a working machine with just a few parts and…

Howard Cantin was the man behind the printed circuit boards for many of the early atari machines as well as the Apple01 computer.   Recently, Mike Willegal, creator of the Apple-1 Mimeo, sat down with Howard in a telephone interview to talk about what when into those days and his relationships with the heads of what was then Apple Computer as well as how things went with Nolan Bushnell of Atari As for the proverbial story about how Atari refused the…

The C2T Binary Conversion program created by Egan Ford has now been officially released.  The program was created out of the need for a tool to convert Apple II files and disk images to audio files.   These audio files are used by the Apple ][ Game server Online as well as the Apple ][ Disk Server. Egan has written a complete documentation and breakdown of the C2T conversion program at: http://asciiexpress.net/files/c2t.html You can download the complete binary and source code…

A.P.P.L.E. has updated the Apple Archives Link site with over 50 new links and now has more than 250 vintage apple links.  The site includes categories for nearly every aspect of vintage apple computing including software, emulation and project related links.  Some of the new features of the archives include: New Pull Down menus for each category Added DVD and Apple IIgs categories to the archives Single click to website links There currently are another 25 links remaining in the…

The Open Emulator is an Apple emulator for multiple platforms, written by Marc Ressl.  He announced yesterday in the CSA2 that his version 1.0.2 of the emulator was available for immediate download from the Open Emulator Website. Included in this latest version is the emulation of the True 1977 Apple ][ computer as well as the Apple-1 platform.   He has included the following features in the emulator: Emulates the 1977 Apple II Joystick/mouse support with programmable axis and button mapping,…

Mike Willegal of Mimeo fame has created an online registry of all known Apple-1 computers. While Apple Computer Inc produced 175 of the units in 1976, very few of the machines have survived the years and the tradein program Apple had when they introduced the Apple ][ computer. To date, Mike has catalogued 39 units complete with information about owners, auctions, auction / sale prices and current state of the machine. The original Apple-1 computer sold for $666.66 USD in…

There is another original Apple-1 computer now for sale on Ebay.  The Apple-1 is considered to be the holy grail of the Apple computing world and only a few of them are still in existence.  Originally 175 units were sold but Apple offered a trade in policy for the boards when they came out with the Apple ][ computer. This particular machine belongs to a former Apple Computer, Inc. employee, Joe Copson and is inside of a case that is…

Egan Ford has released a new update to his Codebreaker program for the Apple-1.   The new program now includes three levels of play; Normal, Master, and Pro.  Also changed in the program is the following items: Added “Master” level–same as “Pro” but with 60 second time limit. Added a score board on exit. Fixed a memory(stack) leak. Built for 8K Apple 1. To Load and Execute the Codebreaker program on an Apple-1 or Apple-1 Emulator, use the following commands: C100R…

Egan Ford has created a new game for the Apple-1 computer.  The game, Codebreaker, is based upon the old game of Mastermind in which a user tries to break the code in the shortest time possible.  The six digit color coded sequence must be solved in a minimum of moves and time. Codebreaker requires a 16K Apple-1 computer or an Apple-1 emulator such as Marc Ressl’s Open Emulator (http://www.openemulator.org) in order to play the game.  Egan has provided a video…

Marc Ressl has updated his Open Emulator program to version 1.0.1.  The emulator which was recently released with Apple-1 compatibility is now being added to in order to support the Apple ][ series as well. The latest version of the software includes the following updates: * Several timing issues where fixed. The Apple-1 should run now cycle-accurate. * The audio recorder was fixed. This was impairing loading cassette tapes. * On Apple-1 emulations, backspace is now mapped to underscore. You…

By Bill Martens When Steve Wozniak first created his Apple-1 computer, it was all hand wire wrapped and on breadboard.  No fancy automated electronic assembly was even thought of.  It was purely a labor and work of true love of the art form.  These hand built machines were mostly produced in early 1976 with the original production machines being produced in April 1976 by Steve Wozniak (http://www.woz.org) and Steve Jobs. The fact that only 175 of the original Apple-1 production…

Mike Willegal has announced that final beta testing on the Brain Boards has begun and that the kits will be $59.00.  Pre-built units will be available at some point for an additional fee.  Mike has also put  out a beta of the users guide for users to familiarize themselves with the board and created a website for the board at: http://www.willegal.net/appleii/brainboard.htm Orders for the Brain Board will begin to be taken on 19 March 2011 with the first units expected…

Mike Willegal has posted a photo of his fully assembled Brain Board for the Apple II. The Brain Board turns an ordinary Apple ][ computer into an Apple-1 allowing the user to perform all of the same functionality of the Apple-1 computer while utilizing the Apple ][ cassette interface and keyboard for I/O. For more on the brainboard, check out the post at: http://www.willegal.net/blog/?p=1321