The Apple 1 Registry
A Virtual Museum of Original Apple 1 Computers
66 Apple 1s Currently Listed
this version of registry last updated June,
2015 (This page will not be updated in the foreseeable future)
Maintenance of the Apple 1 Registry has been taken over by Achim Baqué
Achim has updated all information and greatly expanded
the content.
Go see the fantastic new and improved Apple Registry:
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Apple 1's were clearly built in two main batches, though it is
possible that there were further sub batches. The two main
batches are identified by the PCB manufacturer. The first
batch did not have the PCB manufacturer on the front copper layer of
the board. The later batch had the label NTI on the front,
etched in copper right under the "APPLE COMPUTER 1" logo. Each
batch had a slightly different mix of components. This is an
attempt to catalog known Apple 1s and provide basic details helpful
in identification of each one. The earliest known owner or
other unique attribute, will be used as the base
identifier. If I can get permission to post an image, I will
also provide a visual record of the motherboard.
Serial Numbers - Maybe!!!
Traditionally, the 01-XXXX numbers written on the backs of many of
the first batch of Apple 1's have been attributed to the Byte Shop
numbering the units, as they received them. This section is
under review/revision due to some new information that has just been
received by the editor of this web page.
Warning
In the past, there has been at least one known attempt to sell a
reproduction Apple 1, as an original. Reproductions are
getting harder and harder to tell from originals. Some
builders of reproduction Apple 1's have gone to the effort to find
components with the same manufacturer and date code as were used on
original Apple 1s. When these components could not be found,
chips have even been relabeled to reflect date code correct
parts. At this point, as far as we know, no hobbyist
have done this to deceive potential purchasers, but the potential is
there. There is also growing potential for people who have
inherited a reproduction to accidentally misrepresent a reproduction
as an original.
It is hoped that this list will be helpful in authenticating
original units. Do to the increasing quality of
reproductions, be aware that even the maintainers of this list could
potentially be confused by a fake, which might end up on this
list. If you are in the market for an original Apple 1, be
extremely careful about what you are investing in.
Components
Check out this Applefritter Post for an initial description of
components used in at least 2 batches.
http://www.applefritter.com/node/24536#comment-59895
This is the beginning of a spreadsheet
showing as much component information as can be determined for each
unit.
Apple 1 Batches (NTI and non-NTI boards)
Besides Woz's hand wired prototype and at least one manufactured
prototype, there were probably two batches of Apple 1 PCBs
made. Date codes on chips installed in the first batch
indicate that it was made around April of 1976. The date
codes on the second batch point to a production date in the second
half of 1976. The first batch and second batch were apparently
made by different PCB manufacturers.
Apple 1s Trade Ins
Some Apple 1's were traded in for credit on Apple IIs. The
credit offered was not a great deal. See this letter
for an example of what Fred Hatfield was offered. He turned
it down. The only person that I've run across that actually
executed a trade in was Bob Bishop, famous Apple II
programmer. I exchanged some emails with Bob recently, and
he doesn't remember what he received. He does think it was
along the lines of what Fred was offered. There are a couple
of units in existence that were probably traded in. These
are the two that the Huston brothers took from the pile in Steve
Jobs office. Although there are stories of many Apple 1s
being traded in for Apple IIs, I have found evidence of very few
actual trade ins.
Unsold Apple 1s
Early in Apple history, there was a stack of Apple 1's, first in
a cabinet in the lab and later on, moved to Steve Job's
office. Depending upon which early Apple employee you talk
to, the stack was either large or small in size. The best
take from this is that there were a modest number of individual
units in the stack, but they took up a large amount of vertical
space, due to height the heat sinks. There were two
categories of units in this stack. In addition to a few
units that were traded in for credit on Apple IIs, there were a
number of unsold Apple 1s, that were never populated with chips
and tested. A number of early Apple employees were
allowed to take one of these boards home. All of the
unsold units were NTI boards and had no chips in the
sockets. Some have been populated and brought to life since
that time. Since not many people know the story of the
unpopulated/unsold boards, when encountering these boards,
people usually speculate that the chips were pulled from the
boards after being sold.
How Many Apple 1s Exist?
Besides those listed here, I have heard through the grapevine of
several more. It is also probable that the first
4 units on the following list (and possibly more) have been
lost. There are undoubtedly a number that are still not
known to me or or my friends. It is very possible that some
of the poorer documented units on this list could be duplicates.
Summary of Apple 1s
The following chart is organized by version, 22uF cap colors, DRAM
and 6502 type. Those characteristics can be used to narrow
down a particular unit to being part of a fairly small group of
similar units. Follow the link in the name column to find
out more about the unit and see images (if available).
#
|
NAME
|
VERSION
|
ID
|
LOCATION
|
Last
Operation
|
6502
|
22UF caps
|
DRAM
|
Image Quality
|
1
|
1st Prototype
|
Hand wired
|
-
|
unknown |
-
|
|
|
|
poor
|
2
|
Production Prototype
|
pre-production
|
-
|
unknown |
-
|
|
|
|
fair
|
3
|
Apple Ad 1
|
no NTI
|
-
|
unknown |
-
|
white
|
all blue?
|
ceramic
|
excellent
|
4
|
Apple Ad 2
|
no NTI?
|
-
|
unknown |
-
|
white
|
all blue?
|
ceramic
|
fair
|
5
|
CHM #1
|
no NTI
|
-
|
Mountain View, CA
|
no
|
white
|
all blue
|
plastic/ceramic
|
excellent
|
6
|
Byte Shop #32 |
no NTI |
01-0032
|
USA |
2013 |
white |
all blue |
plastic/ceramic |
excellent |
7
|
Computer Closet
Collection |
no NTI |
|
unknown |
unknown |
white |
all blue |
plastic/ceramic |
fair |
8
|
Framed #1 |
no NTI |
|
Traveling Museum |
2011 |
white |
all blue |
plastic |
excellent |
9
|
Wendell Sander |
no NTI |
01-0024 |
USA |
2013 |
white |
all blue |
plastic |
excellent |
10
|
Rick Conte |
no NTI |
|
USA |
unknown |
white |
all blue |
plastic |
good |
11
|
Jim McCaig |
no NTI |
01-0040 |
unknown |
unknown |
white |
all blue |
plastic |
excellent |
12
|
2002 VCF auction |
no NTI |
|
unknown |
2002? |
white |
all blue |
plastic |
poor |
13
|
John Burch |
no NTI |
01-0013 |
USA |
unknown |
white |
all blue |
plastic |
excellent |
14
|
Rack Mount |
no NTI |
|
USA |
unknown |
white |
all blue |
plastic |
good |
15
|
Moore |
no NTI |
|
USA |
unknown |
white |
all blue |
plastic |
good |
16
|
VCF 2003 |
no NTI |
01-0011 |
unknown |
unknown |
white |
all blue |
plastic |
good |
17
|
framed #4 |
no NTI |
01-0046
|
unknown |
2013
|
white |
all blue |
plastic |
good |
18
|
Byte shop 1-25 |
no NTI |
01-0025 |
Italy |
2013 |
white |
all blue |
plastic |
poor |
19
|
John Anderson |
no NTI
|
01-0070
|
USA
|
2014
|
white
|
all blue
|
plastic
|
good
|
20
|
James Coble
|
no NTI
|
01-0052
|
USA
|
unknown
|
unknown
|
all blue
|
plastic
|
good
|
21
|
Huston #1 |
no NTI |
7/L(stamp) |
USA |
unknown |
white |
all blue |
4k plastic |
good |
22
|
Christies June 2012 |
no NTI |
|
unknown |
unknown |
white |
all blue |
4k plastic |
fair |
23
|
Byte Shop 60 |
no NTI |
01-0060 |
USA |
unknown |
white |
all blue |
4k plastic |
excellent |
24
|
Winston
Gayler
|
no NTI
|
|
Museum San Jose
|
2013
|
white
|
all blue
|
plastic/ceramic
|
excellent
|
25
|
Byte Shop 4X
|
no NTI
|
01-004x
|
USA
|
unknown
|
white
|
all blue
|
plastic
|
good
|
26
|
Rudie Hoess |
no NTI |
|
Sydney, Australia (not on
display) |
unknown |
plastic |
all blue |
plastic |
good |
27
|
Liza Loop |
no NTI |
none
|
USA |
unknown |
plastic |
all blue |
plastic |
fair |
28
|
VCF midwest demo |
no NTI |
|
USA |
2013 |
plastic |
all blue |
plastic |
good |
29
|
Sicilian |
no NTI
|
78? |
Sicily
|
unknown
|
white
|
all blue
|
plastic
|
good, partial
|
30
|
Ricketts |
no NTI |
|
unknown |
2014 |
white |
all blue |
missing |
poor |
31
|
Copson |
no NTI |
|
Germany |
unknown |
white |
all blue |
missing |
good |
32
|
Byte
Shop 48
|
no NTI |
01-0048
|
unknown |
unknown |
white
|
all blue
|
missing
|
good
|
33
|
Applefritter |
no NTI? |
|
unknown |
unknown |
white |
|
expanded |
poor |
34
|
Torzewski |
no NTI |
01-0057 |
unknown |
unknown |
white |
|
|
poor |
35
|
Museum in Bern |
no NTI |
|
Bern, Switzerland |
unknown |
|
|
|
none |
36
|
Jean Louie Gassee |
no NTI? |
01-0005 |
unknown |
unknown |
|
|
|
none |
37
|
Nexon Museum |
NTI |
|
Jeju Island, South Korea |
2010 |
white |
all gold |
plastic |
good |
38
|
Nixdorf Museum |
NTI |
75(sticker) |
Germany |
unknown |
white |
all gold |
plastic |
good |
39
|
Science Museum
London |
NTI |
|
London, England |
unknown |
|
all gold |
plastic |
fair |
40
|
framed #2 |
NTI |
|
Asia |
2012 |
plastic |
all gold |
plastic |
excellent |
41
|
Frank Anderson |
NTI |
82(sticker) |
Italy |
2012 |
plastic |
all gold |
ceramic/plastic |
good |
42
|
De Anza College |
NTI? |
|
unknown |
never |
missing |
all gold
|
missing |
poor |
43
|
Startup Museum |
NTI? |
|
Albuquerque, NM |
unknown |
|
all gold |
|
none |
44
|
Ex Employee1 |
NTI |
4062(sticker) |
USA |
2013 |
plastic |
all gold |
plastic |
good |
45
|
Duston
|
NTI |
|
USA |
unknown |
white |
4 gold/1 blue
|
plastic |
excellent |
46
|
CHM#2
|
NTI
|
|
Mountain View, CA |
unknown
|
white
|
3 gold/2 blue
|
plastic
|
excellent
|
47
|
Larry Nelson |
NTI |
|
unknown |
unknown |
white |
3 gold/2 blue |
plastic |
fair |
48
|
Hatfield |
NTI |
|
Korea |
2013 |
white |
3 gold/2 blue |
plastic |
good |
49
|
Ray Borrill |
NTI |
37(sticker)
|
Japan |
2000 |
synerteck |
3 gold/2 blue |
plastic |
excellent |
50
|
Roth |
NTI |
|
unknown |
unknown |
white |
3 gold/2 blue |
expanded |
fair |
51
|
jeff Raskin |
NTI |
|
unknown |
unknown |
white |
1 gold/4 blue
|
plastic |
good |
52
|
American
Computer Museum |
NTI |
|
Bozeman, Mt |
unknown |
white |
1 gold/4 blue |
plastic |
none |
53
|
National Museum of
Scotland |
NTI |
|
Edinburgh, Scotland |
unknown |
white |
1 gold/4 blue |
plastic |
fair |
54
|
Dave |
NTI |
37(sticker) |
USA |
unknown |
white |
1 gold/4 blue |
plastic |
excellent |
55
|
Ex
Employee2 |
NTI |
4062(sticker) |
USA |
2013 |
plastic |
1 gold/4 blue |
plastic |
good |
56
|
Ex Employee3 |
NTI |
4062&49(sticker) |
USA |
unknown |
plastic |
1 gold/4 blue |
plastic |
good |
57
|
Hoag |
NTI |
4062&43(sticker) |
USA |
never |
plastic |
1 gold/4 blue |
missing |
excellent |
58
|
Schoolsky |
NTI |
4062&49(sticker) |
USA |
never |
missing |
1 gold/4 blue |
missing |
excellent |
59
|
Postman |
NTI |
49(sticker) |
USA |
2012 |
white |
1 gold/4blue |
ceramic |
excellent |
60
|
Japanese |
NTI |
|
Japan |
2012?
|
plastic |
|
plastic/ceramic |
fair |
61
|
it-history.net |
NTI? |
|
unknown |
unknown |
|
|
|
poor |
62
|
Smithsonian
|
unknown
|
|
Washington, DC (not on
display)
|
unknown
|
|
|
|
none
|
63
|
Enter Museum
|
unknown
|
|
Solothurn, Switzerland
|
2012? |
|
|
|
none
|
64
|
Berkeley Store
|
unknown
|
|
USA |
unknown
|
|
|
|
none
|
65
|
Mitchell Waite
|
unknown
|
|
USA |
unknown
|
|
|
|
none
|
66
|
framed #3
|
unknown
|
|
USA
|
1993?
|
|
|
|
none
|
The following Apple 1 descriptions are divided into 3 main sections
- units seen in old, period photos, units in museums and units
owned by individuals. Where possible history of
unit and interesting characteristics of the board are included in
the descriptions.
Historic Units - Units Seen in Only in
Old Images
Woz - first
prototype
http://www.cedmagic.com/history/apple-1-2-steves.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul7NkLGtD84
- At one time in Apple Computer's History display - Woz
indicates that the current location is unknown
- Steve used point to point soldered wiring rather than wire
wrap because it was easier to follow the wiring once built up
- It is possible that a second unit was built - Woz's memory is
hazy about number he made.
- An early Apple employee mentioned that there was a fire in
Woz's garage at one point, and it may have been destroyed.
Paul Terrel's Image of prototype Apple 1
http://techland.time.com/2012/11/22/behold-some-of-the-first-apple-computer-photos-ever/
- This image shows a unique motherboard with some unique
components
- Woz indicates that there were probably about 3 prototypes made
to verify the board layout
- They were not flow soldered
- Woz isn't sure, but they were probably soldered by Steve Jobs,
though Woz may have done the soldering
- From the image, it looks like originally that regulated + 12
and - 12 was provided to the edge connecter. The
production unit supply unregulated +12 and -12 to the edge
connector. Woz doesn't remember any of the details
surrounding those changes.
- The current location of any of these pre-production boards, if
any still exist, is unknown
Apple 1 in advertisement #1- one with white 6502
and 6820
http://www.macmothership.com/gallery/gallery1.html
- It is not known if this units still exists.
- The close up image of the board was provided by Wendell
Sander, who found it in his stash of old Apple stuff.
It is apparently the same image as used in the ad.
The original picture is sharp enough to easily read all
the date codes on the chips. This board is unique in that
it doesn't have the NTI logo on the PCB, but it has the same
caps as used on later NTI boards. The white 2513 is a GI
part. The 2504 data codes are later than some first run
boards. This is probably a board built espcially for the
advertisment as no known board has this combination of
components.
- This and Liza Loop's machine are only units known to exist
with a white 6820. However Liza's has ceramic disk
capacitors, and this one doesn't, so they are clearly two
different machines.
Apple 1 in
advertisement and photographs #2- the one with white 6502
http://www.macmothership.com/gallery/gallery1.html
- This is a fairly common configuration and a number of pictures
show the Steve's holding a unit of this configuration.
- It is not known if any of these units still exists and because
of the common configuration it would be hard to confirm.
- White 6502 and disc capacitors
In Museums
Computer History Museum (Mountain View, CA)
image courtesy of Wendell Sander
- No NTI logo
- This one is said to be on loan to the Computer History Museum
from WOZ's personal collection (not true).
- The acquisition record available online shows it was actually
donated by the Dysan Corporation.
- Some power supply components are missing - Woz might have used
this board for voltage margining (conjecture)
- White 6502, disk capacitors and rare white 4096 DRAM chips
Computer History Museum
image courtesy of Wendell Sander
- NTI logo
- Location: Computer History Museum (one of two at the museum)
- Donated to PBS (public TV) fund raising auction and sold to
Janet Keim for $90
- Later sold to Ian Lynch Smith for $10,000
- On loan to CHM by Ian Lynch Smith
- This one is possibly a later production board, possibly with a
16K memory mod (I need to research this modification further)
- White 6502 and plastic film decoupling caps
- Steve Lohr published the story of this machine on his blog (http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/24/how-vintage-apple-computers-used-to-sell/)
Framed
Apple 1 (1 of 4) - Auctioned - August 2010
http://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/an-apple-i-apple-1-early-personal-computer-with-1-c-b8a066d9bb?af
- No NTI logo
- One of four units framed by an Apple 1 enthusiast in 1993.
- White 6502 and disc capacitors
- Black plastic DRAM
- Five blue 22uF caps
- Very similar component mix to Wendell Sander's, however is
missing byte shop serial number.
- Sold by this Apple 1 enthusiast to "former Apple
executive"
- Auctioned in Aug, 2010, consigned by "former Apple executive"
- Auction found no bidders
- Purchased by Texas based collector after the auction
- This one works
- Texas based collector sold this one to same collector
that purchased the Huston Brothers ebay auction
160413355114
- On display as part of Lonnie Mimm's Apple Pop Up museum
Computer
Museum in Bern
http://www.applefritter.com/pictures/index.html
http://www.macprime.ch/news/article/berner-museum-zeigt-den-legendaeren-apple-i/
- No NTI logo
- Description is of the board in the Applefritter pictures!
- The board in picture from the Bern museum is different than
the Applefritter pictures, but I'm told the machine in the
Applefritter pictures was sold to that museum.
- Plastic 6502 and ceramic caps
Rudie
Hoess's Apple 1 - Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, Australia
Nexon
Computer Museum
- NTI logo
- White 6502
- Ebay Auction 320585219846, Sept 2010
- rework connecting PIA to proto area with multi- color ribbon
cable
- no number sticker on back
- this one sold to same collector that purchased the Huston
Brothers ebay auction 160413355114
- traded to another collector for a Cray 1
- brought up to operational state and auctioned at Sotheby's for
374,500 on 6/15/2012
- Buyer is from Korea and this Apple on Display in the Nexon
Computer Museum
The Smithsonian's Apple
Computer
http://www.computersciencelab.com/ComputerHistory/HtmlHelp/Images2/Apple1.jpg
- No PCB information
- Wendell Sander reported on the origin of this unit in the
Retro-Restore Yahoo Group: "The story I heard (and I don't
recall the source) was that the Smithsonianapproached Apple
asking for an Apple 1. Phil Roybal (one of the early
marketingpeople, employee # 36) knew that Homestead High School
had one. Homestead iswhere the two Steves went to High School.
He approached the school and offeredto trade a fully equipped
Apple II for the Apple 1 and they agreed. My understanding was
that the case was built at the school."
- Randy Wigginton told a friend of mine at K'Fest in 2013
that he is 95% sure that his brother made the enclosure at
high school.
- No longer on display - the computer display has been
dismantled
The
Startup Museum in Albuquerque, NM
http://www.startupgallery.org/gallery/item.php?ii=27
- This computer that was sold to Paul Allen
- Details unknown at this time - appears to have a Datanetics
keyboard
Nixdorf Computer Museum - #75
- NTI logo
- White 6502
- Plastic DRAM
- Gold 22UF caps
- 75 sticker on back
"Enter"
computer museum in Solothurn, Switzerland
http://www.enter-online.ch/
I'm told that it is working
American Computer Museum
http://www.compustory.com/index.html
- NTI logo
- Black plastic DRAMs
- 1 22uF cap is gold, 4 are blue
- white 6502
- NTI
Science
Museum of London
http://www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk/icons_of_invention/technology/1968-2000/IC.094/
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apple_I_computer.jpg
- NTI board
- Plastic film decoupling capacitors
- Lots of rework around DRAM area.
National Museum of Scotland
http://www.nms.ac.uk/collections/results.php?terms=apple+1&mode=search&key=description
- NTI logo
- Donated to the museum in 2007
- "The donor tells the story:"In 1979 or 1980 a friend of mine
informed me that a friend of his was upgrading his computer at
home and was selling his Apple 1. I did not ask if this
fellow had purchased the Apple 1 new, but he was upgrading to a
computer from a different manufacturer, possibly Alterra.
I decided to buy this Apple 1 and the equipment he was using
with it. While the Apple 1 looked like an amateur's
assembly, the industrial surplus desk and integrated 19 inch
equipment rack gave it a more finished overall appearance.
The desk had a cutout with an IBM Selectric typewriter set into
it. This Selectric could be used manually but was also
configured for electronic control, and the interface from the
Apple 1 was working.
I discovered that programming the Apple 1 to perform any useful
tasks was a painstaking and laborious effort. The audio
cassette recorder connected to the Apple 1 Cassette Interface
provided the convenience of being able to reload the previous
session, so software debugging could continue. I did get
some experience with assembly language of a
microprocessor. I also learned that I was not very good at
it and did not really enjoy it. After about a year of
periodic activity programming the Apple 1 I set it aside […] I
disposed of the table with rack and Selectric, but kept the
Apple as a possible historical item. "
Winston Gaylor's Apple 1
- This system has a rare white 6820
- A mix of DRAM
- A unique power supply
- Some hacking is evident due to the sockets in the proto area
- Keyboard and documentation still with this unit
I believe that his system came to be in the Museum San Jose through
the following path, though museum records can't confirm it.
- Purchased from Winston Gayler by Computer History Association
of California (now defunct)
- This occurred due to a donation by Larry Tesler (at one time,
chief scientist of Apple) in late 1993 or early 1994
- Displayed at FRYs in the late 90s
- Somehow donated or loaned to Museum San Jose sometime around
the time of the disbanding of the Computer History Association
- Powered up and operated in the spring of 2013 in a documented
news story (San Jose Mercury). Woz and a number of other
people and Apple 1s were present.
John
Anderson's Apple 1
- John Anderson was a founding member of the AppleSider's user
group in Ohio
- This unit was said to have been presented to John when Woz was
a keynote speaker the first "Applevention", though this story
needs confirmation
- This unit is being sold by Mr Anderson's family at Bonham's
auction of October, 2014
- Purchaser was the Henry Ford Museum who paid a record $905,000
- Current the Museum is preparing an display for this unit
Sicilian Apple 1 01-0078
- Acquired by current owner in 2000
- Displayed in Sicily in 2013
- non-NTI
- White 6502
- black plastic DRAM
- blue 20uF caps
- has PR-40 printer , ACI and documentation
- Centerpiece of a newly forming museum "Museo Piemontese
dell'Informatica"
Private Ownership
Liza Loop - no number
- No NTI logo
- This is supposed to the the first production unit that was
delivered to a customer.
- Has a rare white 6820, but a non-whte 6502
- Some notes from Liza about her Apple 1 (thanks to Cameron for
passing this along)
- "The missing memory chips may never have been there. Or, we
may have
moved them to Apple II"
- "I know I lent the original 6502 to a friend and he never
gave it back
(probably in 1980 or so). The 6502 that is in it now was
handed to me
at the Vintage Computer Festival at the Computer History
Museum in Mt.
View, CA several years ago."
- "This particular Apple I never worked reliably. I took it
back to Woz
and complained that I couldn't use it in the classroom because
it took
20 minutes to load BASIC and it crashed so often we couldn't
do
anything in a 40 minute class period. He kept it for a couple
of
months and then returned it with the jumpers you see on the
back. When
it was still flaky he said he had a surprise for me and I
should wait
a little longer."
Wendell Sanders - byte shop 01-0024
image courtesy of wsander
- No NTI logo
- Details of recent restoration can be found at: http://www.apple1notes.com/Home/Hello.html
- White 6502 and disk capacitors
- Five blue 22uF caps
- I have a comprehensive component list for this board detailed
in spreadsheet
- One of the few operating original Apple 1s
- From Wendel's web site - this was purchased from a Byte Shop
on Blossom Hill Road in South San Jose, CA in August, 1976.
- Has 01-0024 in black pen on back. This is
supposed to be a serial number assigned by the Byte shop.
Charles and Edythe
Ricketts
http://www.macgeek.org/museum/appleone/
- No NTI logo
- In a blue enclosure
- Purchased in July/Aug of 1976
- White 6502 and disc capacitors
- Some wires added to the proto area
- Sold at
auction at La Salle Gallery to Captain O'Mahoney in June
of 1999
- Bob Luther who wrote a book on Apple 1s recently sold this one
through a Christie's auction for $365,000
Joe
Copson's Apple 1
- No NTI logo
- Joe Copson was an Apple Computer employee
- Unique case
- White 6502
- Missing DRAM
- Put up for ebay auction in December 2011 with starting bid of
$170,000 - failed to sell
- Includes ACI card
- Put up for auction at Christies in October 2012 and did not
meet reserve
- Was purchased by Bob Luther
- Sold by Bob in an eBay Auction for $236,100.03
- Buyer is located in Germany
Berkeley Computer Store Owner
- No Information on PCB
- Does not work
- This store owner had ties to Apple Computer
Number 52
- Purchased a week after the Atlantic City computer show by
James Coble. Here is his story.
- "I own an Apple I that I bought from Stan Veit's New York
Computer Mart during the week following the August 28, 1976,
computer show held at the Shelbourne Hotel in Atlantic City,
N.J. My unit carrier the number 01-0052 handwritten on the
motherboard. Stan Veit told me that the original purchases
from Apple consisted of 50 units to the Byte Shop and one to the
Computer Mart Los Angeles and one to him at Computer Mart, New
York. The one shipped direct to him from Apple was marked
01-0052 and the one to LA was 01-0051."
Ex-Apple Employee
- NTI board pulled from pile of unpopulated and untested Apple
1s
- Currently being brought up to operating condition and
installed in new enclosure
Ex-Apple Employee
- NTI logo
- Was not populated and tested
- Employee pulled from pile of of unstuffed and untested Apple
1's in cabinet in lab
- Employee's son has it in operating condition
Ex-Apple Employee
- NTI logo
- 49 Sticker on back
- Here is how this one was obtained "On my first day on the job
at Apple, I wandered around the building, poking my head into
everything. In the parts area of the hardware lab, I opened a
cabinet door and found a small stack of unpopulated Apple Ones.
Steve was in the lab at the time, and I pulled one out and asked
him what they were going to do "with this." "It's Yours!," he
said, "Take it!"
- Was not populated and tested, but employee did find some parts
in lab for this unit "They didn't have about 1/3 of them,
including the ROMs"
- Being brought up to operating condition
Mitchell Waite's Apple
1
- Mitch tells me:" I bought mine from a Byte Shop in San Rafael
after seeing Jobs demo it at the Home Brew Computer Club. I
built a weather station on my houseboat and got Steve Jobs to
drive to Greenbrae to see it in action. I wanted to write a
computer graphics book and use it but he told me they had a much
better Apple 2 coming out and I should come to Cupertino and
he'd give me one. There is an amazing story that visit and
subsequent relationship - you can read it at my ancient blog mitchwaite.com (click books).
Woz modified the PIA on the board so I could control a homemade
wind speed device on the roof with assembly language and the
sweet 16 Assembler."
Rick
Conte's Apple 1
- http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/499
- No NTI logo
- Mounted nicely in briefcase
- Donated to the "Maine Personal Computer Museum" in 2009.
The Museum at this time is a rather nice collection, who's
owner is looking for a place to display in public..
- White 6502 and disc capacitors
- There is some chance that Rick Conte obtained this machine
from Stan Veit and it is the one Stan displayed at the ACM show in
1976. However, confirming this will be difficult.
Computer
Closet Collection
http://www.computercloset.org/apple1.htm
- Purchased at the VCF 2.0 in 1998
- No NTI logo
- White 6502 and disc capacitors
- A lot of wires added to the proto area
- Mix of plastic and Gold Topped DRAM
Jim
McCaig's - byte shop #40
- numbered 01-0040 in black felt pen on back
- no NTI logo under Apple Computer 1 Logo
- Cassette interface
- Tan Apple-I Operations Manual
- Cassette Interface Manual
- Believed to have been purchased by Jim @ the Byte Shop
- Missing 7432 @ C9 was said to have been lent to "Joe"
(Jim's friend / original Apple employee)
- Rest of parts are presumed to be original
- Jim was a junior high school teacher in Miller Jr. High in
Cupertino & Math text book author
- Jim passed away in 2007 and the unit is in the family's
possession
2002 VCF
auction
http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mac/commentary/cultofmac/2002/04/51907
- No NTI logo
- sold for $14000
- White 6502
- Black plastic DRAM
- Unusual green keyboard connector
- All 22uF caps are blue
Operated at VCF Midwest in 2011 and 2012, KFest 2013
- No NTI logo
- A unit has been operated at VCF Midwest for the past few of
years
- Also at K'Fest in 2013, where WOZ signed it
- Most recently shown at VCF east
- This unit was operating for a long time with monitor and BASIC
on a breadboard, because it was missing original PROMs
- Plastic 6502
- THis unit was operating for a long time with an Apple II power
supply
- Replacement PROMs have been found, as well as the large
Sprague Caps, so the unit now looks like it was as it was
originally shipped
- I discussed the history of the unit with the owner at VCF east
in 2014. This unit came from an early Apple employee, it
probably was a unit that was traded in, rather than one of the
unbuilt units All the unbuilt units are NTI versions and this
one is without the NTI logo. Why it was originally missing
critical components is a bit of a mystery
Byte Shop
Apple 1
No NTI logo
I don't currently have much information on this unit, other than
this image.
Owned by private collector in USA
Jef
Raskin's Apple 1
http://www.digibarn.com/friends/jef-raskin/apple-1/index.html
- NTI logo
- A white 6502 and plastic film decoupling caps
- Jef has passed away - appears to be in the possesion of his
wife
- Failed
to sell at auction in June of 1999.
Larry
Nelson's Apple 1
http://www.rickcrandall.net/article32.php
- NTI logo
- Originally purchased in June, 1977
- Purchased by Rick Crandell in December 2002, with a lot of
extras, including a PR-40 printer and misc documents.
- Case was built by Rick
- White 6502
- plastic DRAM
- ceramic 6820
LCF
group #1 - Adam Schoolsky
- NTI logo
- This was a never populated/unsold unit taken from the stack by
Adam, who was an Apple employee at the time
- 4062 label on front
- #49 sticker on back
- Purchased from Adam Schoolsky by LCF group in 90s
- I have more information on this one and will be updating with
details
Byte Shop
01-0060 (LCF group #2)
- No NTI logo
- White 6502
- Video RCA connector added
- Looks like power supply connector bypassed
- Puchased from Adam Duston in the 90s
- I have more details on this one and will be updating this page
LCF group #3
- NTI logo
- White 6502 and plastic film decoupling caps
- Puchased from Adam Duston in the 90s
- 77 stamped on back
- Blue (replacement?) keyboard connector
- Added RCA video connector
- I have more details on this one and will be updating this page
when I get time
John Burch
- byte shop 01-0013 (LCF group #4)
- No NTI logo
- White 6502
- In wood case (not pictured)
- I have more details on this one and will be updating this page
Rack
Mounted Apple 1
- No NTI logo
- This unit has been put into a converted rack mount style
enclosure
- It has some additional logic added in the prototyping area,
where the keyboard input circuit is connected
- It includes a custom redwood keyboard enclosure
- Ceramic 6820
- White 6502
- An additional capacitor strapped in parallel to the 5300 MF
Sprague cap
- Also includes this interesting
letter dated April 2,1979, showing that the Apple 1 trade
in deals were forgotten and no longer in effect by then.
#37,
2000 VCF Auction, Ray Borrill
http://www.vintage.org/2000/apple-1.html
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/apple/apple_I/
- NTI logo
- Sold for $25000 to a Japanese person
- This Apple-1 is the last remaining of an order of 15 placed by
Indiana computer-chain store owner Ray Borrill in late 1976.
- Black plastic DRAM
- 3 gold, 2 blue 22uF caps
- Triad transformers
- Uses DO-27 form factor rectifier diodes for +5Volt supply
(either MR-500 or A-14F)
- A very unusual white Synerteck 6502 and plastic film
decoupling caps
- Also an 8 in a circle is stamped on the back
- I have a comprehensive component list for this board detailed
in spreadsheet
- May be in operating condition
- This is the unit sold at auction for $14000 at the VCF,
2000
- Currently can be found on this Japenese web site
http://homepage2.nifty.com/56thWAREHOUSE/APPLE1/APPLE12.html
I understand that this is owned by same person that owns #37/Ray
Borrill and it is displayed on the same web page
Joe
Torzewski's Apple 1
http://torzewski.tripod.com/apple1computer/
- I need better images to be sure that it belongs in this
catagory
- White 6502 and disc capacitors
- Said to be Byte Shop #01-0057
Dave in
Arizona
- NTI logo
- Also with #37 sticker
- Purchased by Dave "a long time ago"
- Black plastic DRAM
- 1 gold, 4 blue 22uF caps
- Triad transformers
- White 6502
- Dave says cassette interface, keyboard and transformers are
still with this unit
Framed Apple 1 (3 of 4)
- One of four units framed by an Apple 1 enthusiast in 1993
- No details available
#43 - Glen
Hoag's Apple 1
- NTI logo
- Acquired from a high school student around 1980 or 1981 while
working as a tech at Computerland/Belmont - webmaster
thinks this was probably an unsold unit
- Most chips were pulled prior to Glen acquiring it
- Many replacement chips have been found
- Hasn't been powered up
- Monlythic caps and GE14F diodes
- There was a twin to this unit, acquired from the same high
school student, by John Burr, co-owner of the
ComputerLand/Belmont, but it's current status is unknown
Monroe
Postman- #49 sticker on back
- NTI logo
- Reported to have been found in garage sale by Monroe!
- Missing parts replaced, but never powered on
- It was missing a lot of parts and soldered in components
matches other unpopulated boards known to have been scavenged
from lab or Steve's office - draw your own conclusions, but I
think it came from that pile.
- Plastic film decoupling capacitors
- I have a comprehensive component list for this board detailed
in spreadsheet
- Sold for $17,000 in Ebay buy it now auction #320431509242 in
Sept 2009
- Now owned by proprietor of www.oldcomputermuseum.com website.
- Restored to operating condition
#82 on sticker on
back - Frank Anderson
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zxI22dsOsAo/S5B-X0UKw8I/AAAAAAAAAbU/URE_2ErXPnk/s1600-h/Picture+2.png
- NTI logo
- At one time purchased from Frank Anderson, an electronic
dealer in Great Falls, Montana by Craig Solomonson for MECC.
Craig reports that this computer was sold by Jobs and
shipped from his parents address. Woz seemed a bit confused when
Craig showed him the invoice and asked about it. He said "Not
sold by us, although Job's may have sold it without telling
me."
- Sold by Craig to Jesse Sackman in California
- $50,000 unit sold in Ebay auction 320447681957, late in 2009
- Plastic film decoupling capacitors
- This is the unit auctioned by Christies in London
for 133,250 pounds in November of 2010 to Italian
businessman and private collector Marco Boglione
Huston
Brothers - #unknown (7 or L stamped on back in a circle)
http://apple1computer.blogspot.com/2010/03/another-very-nice-apple-1-sold-on-ebay.html
- No NTI logo
- Grabbed off trade-in scrap heap from Job's office
- White 6502 and disk capacitors
- Huston Brothers had 2, this is the one sold in ebay auction
160413355114 for $42,766.
June Blodgett Moore's
Apple 1
- The curren owner wrote to me and tells the story: "The unit
was bought at the estate sale of a woman who was the first
female graduate of Stanford Law school, June Blodgett
Moore. About the same time she bought a kit, and built an
IMSAI 8080 which I also purchased, but tired of housing
and moving so got rid of it. June died in, I think,
the late ‘70’s."
Byte Shop 1-25
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/10/apple-auction-christies_n_3572903.html
- Sold in Cristie's Auction July, 2013 for 387,750
- Purchased by the Italian "collector club" Bolaffi
- Signed by WOZ
Byte Shop 4X
- This board that has a Byte Shop serial number in the 40s
recently changed hands in a private transaction
Byte Shop 48
- This board is missing ram and some power supply regulators
Unknown Whereabouts
2003 VCF Auctioned
Apple 1
http://www.vintage.org/special/2003/apple-1/
- No NTI logo
- Sold for $16000
- In wood case
- A significant amount of rework/wires on motherboard
- White 6502 and disc capacitors (white 6502 is reported as
damaged, so could have been replaced)
- Has 01-0011 in black pen on back. This is
supposed to be a serial number assigned by the Byte shop
Christie's
June 22, 2012 Auction
http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/books-manuscripts/computing-apple-1-personal-computer-an-5578235-details.aspx?from=salesummary&intObjectID=5578235&sid=77a3f0f9-7f14-4a01-98d7-529e0f251c97
- No NTI logo
- Did not sell
- Purchased in 1978 by proprietor of a retail computer store in
Northern California
- 4K DRAM
- Apple Cassette Interface (ACI) card
#37 Fred in
Louisiana
- NTI logo
- Original owner was Fred Hatfield (not a baseball player)
- ACI, tapes documents- I found out in May of 1013, that
the box was not an original box and has been discarded
- Owner has added an interface to a selectric printer
- Owner complained to Apple about limited software availablity -
Apple offered to exchange his unit and $400 for an Apple II
- see this remarkable
letter from Jobs about it
- 3 gold, 2 blue 22uF caps
- White 6502 and black plastic DRAM
- Sold to a Texas based collector in fall of 2012 for $40,000
- Refurbished, rework removed and put into working order.
- Auctioned by Breker auctions in May of 2013 to someone in Asia
for 671,400.
Framed
Apple 1 (2 of 4)
- NTI logo
- One of four units framed by an Apple 1 enthusiast in 1993
- When purchased in 1993, computer was tested and in running
condition
- Craig Solomonson reports on the story of this board
- Purchased by Craig, a MECC Software Designer, in November of
1993 for $2500
- This was about the same time that Craig found #82 for MECC.
Craig thought that the MECC computer [#82] was neat and
he managed to trade this one for #82 in the box.
When MECC went away in 1999, the former MECC executive,
took this one with him.
- Computer had been upgraded to 20K but was restored back to the
original 8K
- Reacquired by Craig Solomonson in 2011
- Has the NTI logo and a black 6502
- Sold to Rudi Brandstötter. Rudi has powered up this unit
and it is working. The keyboard adapter is one of mine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysMfjU--h8U&list=UUe8Jjxugh8ywvFHO0CsBy9w&index=1&feature=plcp
- Sold at auction in fall of 2012 for 491,868 euros, reportedly
to someone in Asia.
Framed Apple 1 (4 of
4)
- White 6502
- Black plastic DRAM
- With original box
- With original documentation
- One of four units framed by by this Enthusiast in 1993
- Kept by Enthusiast until 2013
- Auctioned off by Brecker in November of 2013 for $340,000 to
"CEO of major company"
- Demonstrated by Brecker before being sold
Huston
Brothers - #2
- No NTI logo
- Grabbed off trade-in scrap heap from Job's office
- Photo courtesy of Cliff & Dick Huston from Ebay Auction,
June 2012
- With cassette interface card
- The ROMs, one of the voltage regulators, and the video pot
have been replaced
- There are two traces on the back side have be cut and
repaired
- White 6502 and disc capacitors
- Sold on ebay for 75,600 on 6/6/12
Seen at De Anza
College Vintage Computer Display Dec 29, 2007
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apple1_MLB.jpg
- Could be a duplicate of one of the other unsold units
- Little is known about this one - but it appears that all the
chips have been removed at some point
- Monolythic decoupling caps - this could be an NTI board, but
the NTI logo can't be seen, perhaps because of the poor image
quality
- Could this be the missing mate to Glen Hoags machine? (see
below)
Byte Shop
01-005, Jean Louie Gassee's Apple 1
- Jean was head of Apple's advanced product development and
worldwide marketing at one time
- Here is Craig Solomonson's story of this board
- Craig Solomonson who worked at MECC was looking for an Apple
1 and during a meeting asked Steve Jobs if he could find an
Apple 1. Steve replied that none were available. However,
Steve's traveling secretary, Mike Murray, heard the
conversation and took Craig aside. He gave Craig, Joe
Torzewski's number and a few months later I traveled to
Indiana and traded him a complete Apple II system with lots of
software for my first Apple 1. It was one of the original
batch built for the Byte Shop. Woz verified that for me. The
Byte Shop has put their own serial number on the back in black
ink....it was "01-0005." Joe had "01-0051" and it had been
upgraded by Woz and was in a special case that he made. I had
this computer for about 5 years. In about 1987, our family
wanted a new van that cost about $20,000. Well, Jean Louie
Gasse wanted my Apple 1 to hang in his office, so the deal was
done. Apple bought it from me for him. My spin on this deal
was, "Woz and jobs sold their van to finance the Apple 1. I
sold my Apple 1 to finance my van!"
Bob Roth's
Apple 1
I'll let Bob tell the story of this unit
"My name is Bob Roth. I bought an Apple 1 computer at a computer
store in Orange County, California in the late 1970's. I paid $40.00
for the circuit board which included the audio interface board. They
had 2 Apple 1's there, but the other one didn't have the audio board
with it. And besides, who needed more than one computer anyway?
I constructed the case that is shown in the photos. I mounted the
mother board on a piece of 1/4 inch aluminum and then built the rest
of the case out of mahogany. My Dad owned a plastic engraving
company at the time so I had him engrave the front panels for me.The
ASCII keyboard was a Radio Shack kit that you had to solder the keys
onto a circuit board. I added more RAM memory for a total of
20K. I did this by stacking the 4K RAM chips on top of each other,
bent out the chip select line from the chip, and then constructed a
address decoder in the prototype area of the mother board. I also
printed out the BASIC program code using a PR-40 printer that I had
and then blew the code into PROMS. I constructed a circuit board
with the PROMS on it that attached to the second connector at
the rear of the main board. From then on I could start BASIC by just
typing the E000R command. The display was a black and white TV that
my Mother had. I had planned to do more mods to the computer like a
data and address display along with single step capabilities, but
never finished it.
By this time, (1981) Apple 2's were everywhere. There was a new
Apple store opening up in Riverside, California where I lived. They
knew I had built my Apple 1 and asked me to display it for the grand
opening of the store. Steve Jobs was to be the featured guest for
the opening of the new store. Jobs saw my computer and was asking me
some questions about it. He then asked me if I would like to trade
it for a new Apple 2 computer, with a disk drive and the Pascal
language system. About $2000.00 worth of computer at the time. He
said Woz would love to have it back. I was in college at the time
and had no money. And I really wanted a new Apple 2. So I made the
deal. He gave me his business card and told me to call his secretary
and have her set up the trade. I took my Apple 1 to Apple in
Cupertino. They escorted me into the building and into a conference
room. They had a release form already printed up and ready for me to
sign. So I left my Apple 1 there. I still have the Apple 2.
Obviously not the smartest move I ever made.
So I have a question. Have you seen this Apple 1 anywhere? I saw a
picture of it on the Dot Eaters German web site
http://www.8bit-museum.de/ but that's about it. There was also
a picture of it in the old A+ magazine years ago. I'm just curious
who wound up with it.
Shown
In Tom Owad's Applefritter Gallery
http://www.applefritter.com/image/uid/1?from=120
(dead link)
- White enclosure with black bezel around keyboard and toggle
switches next to it
- white 6502 and disc capacitors
- Datanetcis keyboard rev B keyboard
- Lots of wires on back leading to proto area
- Fairchild "16K" DRAMs - so this board probaby has a 20K
memory mod
depicted at
it-history.net
http://it-history.net/forth_generation.html
- Little information available - image of unit in display case
- ceramic/gold 6820
- probably NTI, due to presence of plastic film capacitors
Misidentified
Stanford University
- Supposedly, an Apple 1 PCB that was donated along with a lot
of Apple Computer, Inc., historical items and documents in 1997
- The donation documents says that it is dated 1977, which made
it likely that it is actually an Apple II.
- I've had it confirmed by the librarians at Stanford that the
copyright date is 1977 and this is an Apple II rev 0. The
interesting thing is that this is a bare Apple II rev 0 PCB, one
of two that I know of. The other was auctioned off by the
Huston brothers, at the same time that they sold one of their
Apple 1s.
Example original Apple 1
Systems seen on Ebay
I've decided to log the
ending prices of those auctions I've noticed on this page.
Year |
Note |
Selling price |
2009 |
buy it now auction |
$17,000.00 |
2009 |
buy it now auction |
$50,000.00 |
2010 |
pristine motherboard and accessories |
$42,766.00 |
2010 |
rework in proto area, assortment of accessories |
$22,766.66 |
2012 |
1 Bank DRAM, with ACI card - some replaced components
|
$75,600.00
|
2015
|
Copson's Apple 1
|
$236,100.03
|