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Apple II Microcomputer

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In 1976, computer pioneers Steve ...
The New Yorker

The Birth of the Personal Computer

In 1979, two M.I.T. computer-science alumni and a Harvard Business School graduate launched a new piece of computer software for the Apple II machine, an early home computer. Called VisiCalc, short ...

Steve Jobs sold his Volkswagen to raise $1,300 for Apple’s first computer. He became a millionaire just two years later at 23

Steve Jobs sold his car to raise enough money to build Apple’s first computer. Just one year later, the tech titan reeled in ...
TweakTown

Working Apple I Computer from the 1970s has sold for over $315,000 at auction

The Apple-1 Computer was developed and conceived by Steve Jobs and Steve 'Woz' Wozniak in the mid-1970s as a complete hobbyist kit. It was also one of the first 'personal computers' you could buy, as ...
USA Today

An Apple II computer manual signed by Steve Jobs sells at auction for nearly $800,000

A rare manual for an Apple II Computer signed by co-founder Steve Jobs in 1980 sold at auction for nearly $800,000. According to the site RR Auction, based in Boston, the reference manual signed by ...
New Atlas

Why this $500,000 Apple-1 Computer was a bargain

One of the first personal computers ever sold – a 1976 Apple-1 – fetched US$500,000 at auction yesterday, but it might well be one of the auction bargains of the year. The beautifully restored, ...
Computerworld

Sold on eBay: New-in-box Apple II, never opened

Memories of your first computer can be priceless. Or they can cost $2,600. That’s how much Dan Budiac, a New York Web developer, recently paid on eBay to buy the same model Apple II he grew up with ...
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The Apple II age : how the computer became personal / Laine Nooney

Prehistories of the personal -- Cultivating the Apple II -- Business : VisiCalc -- Games : Mystery House -- Utilities : Locksmith -- Home : The Print Shop -- Education : Snooper Troops -- ...
KTVU

Apple-1 computer sold out of Steve Jobs' garage sells for $500,000

MONROVIA, Calif. - A fully-functional Apple-I computer, which was built by Apple founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak and sold out of Jobs’ garage, recently sold for $500,000 at an auction in ...
Computerworld

Hands on: Building an MP3 player for an Apple II computer

Apple didn’t always rule the digital music industry. It wasn’t until the introduction of the iPod a decade ago that Apple started defining itself as more than just a computer company. Today, it’s ...
KTVU

Apple-1 computer sold out of Steve Jobs' garage could fetch $600K

MONROVIA, Calif. - A fully-functional Apple-I computer, which was built by Apple founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak and sold out of Jobs’ garage, is going up for auction Tuesday and is expected to ...
24/7 Wall St

Cost of a Computer Every Year Since 1970

This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. Once wildly expensive and inaccessible but to the very ...