25 Aug
2020
25 Aug
'20
7:51 p.m.
On Tue, 25 Aug 2020, Alan Frisbie via cctalk wrote:
Dick was a regular fixture at meetings of the Southern
California
Computer Society (SCCS), often making deliveries and taking orders
there. In those days, SCCS monthly meetings were *the* place for
computer geeks to get together and exchange news and get help.
A few months later, two guys named Steve showed up at a meeting
with a kit they called the "Apple I", for the grand price of
$666.66. I wish I had had the foresight to buy one! Instead,
I wound up joining the SCCS group purchase of DEC LSI-11 systems.
I still have that system, with a case and power supply from a
TRW surplus sale. It isn't worth nearly as much as an original
Apple I, though! :-)
"Worth"??
Value can be more than what price they currently sell for.
Q: although WE call it "Apple I", did the Steves call it "Apple I" or
"Apple Computer"?
The answer tells us whether they were explicitly planning on making other
models later!
Wikipedia (a terrible choice of citation in anything DISPUTED) says that
the '1' came later, and says that the first demonstration was by Woz at
the Palo Alto Homebrew Computer Club. (Started by Gordon French and Fred
Moore, with Lee Felsenstein soon after)
For example, what we call "TRS80 Model 1" was NOT called "Model 1"
until
the "Model 2" (and then 3) was announced
What we call "World War 1" was not called "1", nor even "World
War",
until "World War 2" was obvious.
What we call "single density" was not called "single density" until
MFM
was developed, and the MARKETING people called MFM "double density".
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com