The Vintage Computer Festival is auctioning off an extremely rare Apple I. The machine is one of only 50 known to exist. The older Apple I was barely more than a breadboard. Users had to add their own monitors, cases and keyboards. The tape drive for storage was optional. In those days, you had to write your own software if you wanted it to do anything for you.
They (Jobs and Wozniak) made more than 200 of these things and were able to found Apple on them. Most of them, were sold to hobbiests and went for a retail price of $666.66, which royally pissed off “the churches.” Woz was still working for HP at the time and they built them in Jobs garage. Woz is a very groovy kind of person who has done good with most of his time since Apple. Jobs, of course, stumbled several times with several companies… but, is still regarded as one of the 800,000 lb. gorillas of the valley.
Anway, Apple history is interesting indeed… it’s crucial to understanding computing and how we got where we are today.