24 Aug
2023
24 Aug
'23
5:51 p.m.
On Thu, Aug 24, 2023, 8:38 PM Eric Smith via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
wrote:
On Sat, Aug 5, 2023, 08:54 Bill Degnan via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
wrote:
That's the whole point...viewing history from today's perspective THEN the
Apple I was not historic, it was an awesome SBC like others available at
the time. The Apple II is more "historic" because it was a first appliance
computer.
Basically the Apple I is the first Apple. Historic yes but not off the
charts historic for it's time.
I don't mean to be argumentative. I totally get it why the apple I is
historic and valuable, but the proportion is lost. My only point, the
proportion. The fact that today Apple is worth $1Tn does not make the
Apple 1 more historic.
AFAIK the Apple 1 was also the first inexpensive (somewhat subjective)
The Apple I is not historically significant
enough alone to justify
the prices they get
The first product sold by the first company to hit $1T market cap seems
historically significant to me.
personal computer to include a composite video text
display and a parallel
keyboard interface. Such was possible with the PDP-8 and PDP-11/05, but
they were very expensive, and it wasn't a normal configuration. Also
possible with an S100 system, cheaper than a PDP-anything, but still much
more expensive than Apple 1, and had to be configured out of a lot of
pieces.
There are a lot of "firsts" throughout the history of computing, and I'm
sure that there is disagreement over the significance of many, but I think
I'd have a very hard time justifying myself if I claimed the Apple 1 was
not historically significant.
Eric
I agree the aApple I stands out among SBC computers sold in 1976, but there
is nothing that amazing that could not be found elsewhere in an SBC,
otherwise it would have sold more.
The Jolt was the first 6502, how much is that worth?
Bill