There are various news stories about the 30th anniversary of the Apple II computer. My favorite story is that I had Apple II serial number 2 for evaluation. At the time I was working at a computer store in San Mateo, California. The owner, Chet Harris, when down to the Apple factory one Saturday in June of 1977 and came back with the first two completed units. (This must have been June 4.) He had sold serial number 1 to a friend of his and I got serial number 2. After a few weeks the power supply failed and it was sent back to Apple. Jef Raskin ended up with this unit. You can read about it here: http://www.swtpc.com/mholley/Apple/allied_computer.htm Apple started selling the Apple II boards around April of 1977. They were having problems with the plastic case, the early production units did not have the vents on the side. You can see that in the picture of serial number 2. http://www.swtpc.com/mholley/Apple/Jef_Raskin_Apple.jpg A customer at the store, Bill Kelly, was doing the advertising campaign for Apple and he got a prototype Apple II board. I built a linear power supply for it and traded it to him for an Intel SDK-80 board. Here is his web site: http://www.kelleyad.com/Histry.htm Here is a page that shows the my SDK-80 board. http://www.swtpc.com/mholley/Homebrew/Homebrew.htm Even though I went to the Homebrew Computer club, looked at the Apple I, and I had use of a Apple II; I have never owned an Apple computer. Michael Holley www.swtpc.com/mholley