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You could actually have

your own interface.

It was groundbreaking technology.

Wozniak had designed this

genius piece of engineering...

...but he wanted to give it away.

What kind of crazy idea is that?

So Jobs was the one who figured out

this thing should be sold.

What Woz said recently...

...I think he said, "I don't want credit for

designing the first personal computer...

...I just want credit

for designing the first good one."

Rumor has it that Jobs

hated the Apple I.

I've heard numerous stories

that it didn't work properly all the time...

...or there was issues with it.

They were encouraging

and promoting the Apple II,

so they were giving discounts on

Apple ll's if you traded in your Apple I.

Sometimes they would do

an outright swap.

They wanted them off the market.

Then they were getting

bandsawed in half.

But there was supposedly

Now, not all of those were sold.

I hear Woz has some in storage...

...who knows how many,

maybe a half dozen or so.

Value?

I've heard as high as 50,000 for one,

but a perfectly running one in a case

is gonna fetch more.

If it's got the cassette and

the manuals and all that stuff.

I started doing my research

on the Apple I's and the value of them.

Pretty much realized

I could never afford one.

And I had gone to

the user-group website Applefritter.

I talked to some people

and there was discussion...

...about making a replica of one, and

nobody really stepped to the plate, so...

It was a lot of research.

I've still, to this day, never seen

an actual Apple I in operation.

A lot of it, electronically,

I could figure out.

Some of it, visually,

there was no way to tell without...

...asking people, so I had to interview...

...owners or previous owners

of Apple I's to see:

"Hey, what does the cursor look like?

Is it solid, is it blinking?"

It's authentic and it's true to its

memory locations and it's functioning.

It will completely operate

just like the Apple I.

There wasrt really a lot of

commercial software available.

Most of the stuff was converted from...

...programs that were given out in

Creative Computing magazines...

...or written initially for another computer,

which was converted over to the Apple I.

There was no such thing

as a production case for it.

Most Apple I's that you see in a wooden

case, somebody built on their own.

One of the most common things l...

Questions I had was:

"Why didn't you

make it look like an Apple I?"

I didn't want people selling these

as forgeries, as being an actual Apple I.

For one, it's Woz's work, and I don't

want anybody infracting on that.

It's respect for the people

that actually do own the Apple I's.

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