Original Rare Apple 1 Computer Demo at Vintage Computer Festival VCF East

There are only 57 verified Apple-1 computers in existence and we are privileged to have witnessed a demo of this ultra rare original Apple 1 computer. Expert Corey Cohen of the VCF gives us an in-depth look at an original Apple 1 that he restored and demonstrated at Vintage Computer Festival East. The Apple I is the first product from Apple Computers which is now the highest valued company in the world and also produced products such as the Macintosh, Mac, iMac, MacBook, MacBookPro, iPod, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch . The Apple 1 was designed and built in Silicon Valley by Steve Wozniak and was marketed by Steve Jobs and sold through an electronics store called the Byte Shop. Wozniak demonstrated the first prototype in July 1976 at the Homebrew Computer Club in Palo Alto, California. The Apple-1 went on sale in July 1976 at a price of US $666.66 because Wozniak "liked repeating digits" As of January 23, 2020, a functioning, registered Apple I is listed on eBay for US $1,750,000.00. This is a very rare original NTI motherboard.
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[@jimsteele9261]

I remember seeing an Apple 1 in the computer store back in the day... At the time this was the only retail computer store in the entire state of Michigan. I kinda wish the guy was a better salesman, and I had bought it. :)

[@TheGuruMeditation]

Wow, in the computer store? That is cool. You would be able to sell it and buy a very nice house now!

[@jimsteele9261]

@@TheGuruMeditation Yeah, I used to drive down from Flint (60 miles) to look at stuff but only bought magazines. If I had bought it, it probably wouldn't be pristine now, but I would still have it. I still have my homebrew z80, and my Atari 800 from those days.

[@MrHurricaneFloyd]

By now you would have likely gotten rid of it anyhow.

[@miladmiladzade7572]

@@TheGuruMeditation 🤣🤣🤣

[@icantgivecredit871]

Did they by any chance sell keyboards there as well? I always wondered where Apple I owners obtained the peripherals and such. Update: I guess the Byte shop sold them.

[@ignskeletons]

It's amazing how the museum literally has a living piece of history right here that can still be interacted with the way it was intended to work way back in 1976! This little box would go on to create one of the most valuable companies the world has ever seen and change the way we communicate.

[@davesworld7961]

I remember being ten and my Uncle Steve bringing this home and being very excited about it. He had been involved in creating the most powerful computer of it's time in 1975.

[@wbaba34]

cool!

[@TheGuruMeditation]

Wow! I can’t imagine what it was like to have one back then. That’s awesome!

[@eric.waffles]

Your uncle is Steve Woz?

[@JWalterHawkes]

Corey gave such a great talk that day. Thanks for documenting it. It was great to see it again!

[@TheGuruMeditation]

It was a great demo. And your cameo is pretty epic too!

[@JWalterHawkes]

The Guru Meditation I’m straight outta central casting, you dig.

[@HonkeyKong54]

"Steve Jobs Steve Jobs Steve Jobs" Wozniak created the Apple 1

[@MauricioJaramilloMentalista]

Loved this demo, had been wanting to see the Apple I in action for so long.

[@23jfk]

I imagine an old geek taking hours tapping his program and suddenly, by error, he presses the reset touch... Well done Steve !

[@chrislanejones]

Wow you gave this presentation like you have done this 10,000 times. Flawlessly!

[@sw2938]

Woz is amazing…a pure genius

[@scottDchicago]

Awesome demonstration!

[@ohrom8159]

Great Video never saw one of those before was very interesting to learn about it thanks

[@TheGuruMeditation]

Cheers Ohrom! I am so glad you liked it.

[@thayeeboi890]

This is a beautiful piece of history.If I could get it, I will

[@MattHalpain]

this is wonderful video, thank you. I watched this video on a 2019 4K iMac.

[@Mhdmishalk]

1976 Steve jobs and Steve Wozniak really made something big!

[@Horos_de_Vega]

Beautiful.

[@TheGuruMeditation]

Thanks!

[@carlbeing9736]

Me watching this on my iPhone thanks mr jobs

[@TheShrededward]

I visited the UCB computer basement in 1975 as a high school student, and the guys there were cool enough to let me play a few games like star trek and some impossible to play racing game. There were no monitors, so everything was printed out. Would one of those guys in that basement been Wozniak?

[@TheGuruMeditation]

OMG that would be amazing!

[@yannisgk]

i feel proud that i have a replika of the motherboard!!!

[@alex76gr]

Extremely interesting video. Thank you guys!

[@TheGuruMeditation]

Cheers Alex, thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed. Now back to the Amiga videos...

[@yassineinsta7731]

I loved the device case, it looks like a mousetrap 🤣

[@aztockdog]

So rad! That case tho WOW

[@TheGuruMeditation]

I know, right? It reminds me of SceneCat's wooden Amiga 1200, ha ha!

[@Quakeinc14]

Woz was the genius. Jobs was the salesman.

[@10MARC]

Interesting part of history to be sure. Imagine being one of those people who traded in their Apple 1 towards an Apple II, and how they are kicking themselves today!

[@TheGuruMeditation]

Oh man that would be rough. At the time they were probably psyched for the upgrade though! Funny how things work out like that.

[@eanerickson8915]

If these things get more expensive I would be afraid of someone robbing me.

[@miladmiladzade7572]

I hit 900 like , for this treasure you put in youtube

[@antjarvis]

Very cool.

[@TheGuruMeditation]

Thanks Anthony. Glad you enjoyed it!

[@PyreRecords]

I want it!!!! I love apple I wish I could have this beautiful piece of art!!

[@TheGuruMeditation]

It is an expensive piece of art!

[@johnsimon8457]

1:25 - I can imagine Steve Jobs in his barefoot dirty hippie phase turning up at the ByteShop with fifty bare boards trying to sweettalk them into taking them. “Hey, this is an opportunity for YOU!”

[@TheGuruMeditation]

Ha ha!

[@guybolt]

I liked this video when he used a sonic screwdriver and acknowledged that it doesn't work on wood. Lol

[@ScribblyNoodles]

Who would've thought Jonah Hill was so knowledgeable on vintage apple products?

[@shorttimer874]

I don't know if it came with the Apple 1, but when I bought my Apple 2 it came with a basic phone directory program that would poke new entries into the code, data statements I think, so that when you saved the program to disk it would also save the entries. I do not believe there was anyway to store data files to tape.

[@Wyrdrock]

I'm glad to see apple has kept up the tradition of making people buy essential components separately under the guise of "an opportunity" . From the beginning to now, apple: "accessories" not included

[@dunebasher1971]

At the time, it wasn't unusual to have to buy additional items in order to use your computer properly. If you bought an Atari or Commodore PET (after the original PET 2001), you had to buy a proprietary Atari or Commodore tape deck. If you had a Sinclair ZX80 or ZX81 you had to buy a 16K RAM pack if you wanted to do anything more than the most absolute basic things, since the computer only shipped with 1K RAM. If you bought a Sharp MZ80K you had to buy an operating system, since it wasn't sold with one... and on, and on. As for more modern times, I'm not sure what you mean. Every Apple product I've bought has had all the essential components sold with it. It was only in 2020 that they stopped providing a charging brick with iPhones, but they do still include the cable.

[@0u812dave]

i find this far more exciting than the release of a new Apple product!

[@miladmiladzade7572]

I am too

[@smritiyadav7026]

Can someone please tell me how to get the apple30th program(the ASCII faces of Jobs and Wiz), to run on the Pom1 apple emulator?

[@dv_vid]

The guy with the Long Island Retro Gaming t-shirt is so cute. I'm sure he and I would have one thing in common with liking retro computers. But it would be so nice if he was also interested in a relationship with a man almost as old as the Apple I.

[@ezragonzalez8936]

The most unimpressive $1.5 million ive ever seen! Lol 😆 🤣 😂

[@TheGuruMeditation]

LOL!!!!!!!!

[@donnerma]

I love old things It made me think like it's new

[@miladmiladzade7572]

Or i think they made by aliens😂😂

[@paranoidgenius9164]

The casing looks so like the BBC Computer!😀

[@LockedPig]

Omg, what a beast )

[@mikemoss6045]

Iphones and ipods arent loud enough? You cant use a headphone amplifier?

[@KonElKent]

I was born a PET man, and I'll die a PET man, but there's no denying what the Steves did. If I had the chance, I'd buy Woz a beer.

[@OneRyanToRuleThemAll]

badass

[@soteful9949]

How much is less than a hand full? 2:52

[@abdullahali8393]

Now this company will make there own car😌

[@TheGuruMeditation]

Crazy, right?

[@plainiphone0106]

Hello how to you did your intro voice

[@gabog.3040]

WOW

[@TheGuruMeditation]

Amazing, right?

[@Thestoragefiles]

he looks and sounds like the funny actor on war dogs

[@haljohnson6947]

without jobs, woz woulda been handing these out to nerds for a few months until something better came along

[@brostenen]

Sweet..... Now you need to make an episode about commodore replica systems, that people buy and build today. Like a500++ and KU-Replica. And perhaps not just Commodore. There are also Spectrum's and so on.

[@TheGuruMeditation]

That is a great idea!

[@brostenen]

@@TheGuruMeditation There are these SixtyClone 250407 and 250466 boards. And the KU clone from bwack.

[@michaelwallen738]

Cool

[@TheGuruMeditation]

Thanks Mike!

[@madzen112]

Did they try and sell it off as organic with that wooden frame? It's an Apple after all.

[@vanhetgoor]

When you no longer play with it, you can give it to me!

[@6502Assembler]

This unit is now on ebay for 1.5 million.

[@ajna3-651]

Yeah wtf xD

[@mprajo]

So cablegate started from Apple 1 and continued all the way to 2015. with the short display cable that snapped to users🤣

[@paranoidgenius9164]

The Apple 1 predates the BBC Computer by about 5 years

[@pppkenken6610]

ありがとうございます

[@imMalpa12455]

I have the apple 1 signature edition including Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in PERFECT condition, anybody got any idea what it’s worth?

[@petcollection5549]

half a million dollar

[@imMalpa12455]

@@petcollection5549 fr?

[@stevenbrown5483]

mr peddle would have scoffed at that machine lol

[@TheGuruMeditation]

He probably did!

[@stevenbrown5483]

@@TheGuruMeditation watching is last full interview he certainly did !

[@jeffschaap]

In a book I rad about the history of Commodore it says Peddle actually did see it very early on. He visited the garage they where Woz and Jobs were working on the Apple I. They couldn't get it working and Chuck helped them. In fact, during that visit Jobs offered to sell Apple to Peddle for 2 million. Woz said he was really embarrassed by the offer. Here's the book: www.amazon.com/Commodore-Company-Edge-Brian-Bagnall/dp/0973864966

[@Breakfast_of_Champions]

Reform caps?? Never heard of it. Don't they just dry up over time?

[@10MARC]

I thought that was pretty interesting too. I wonder how it is done?

[@sollawrld2464]

Can it run minecraft tho

[@solarr2]

👍😎🤓👍🤘

[@pnvgordinho]

A time when you could open your Mac and upgrade or fix things.

[@TheGuruMeditation]

I know, right? It actually came with schematics and everything. Now you can't even upgrade the hard drive, memory, or fix it - but it is thin!

[@pnvgordinho]

@@TheGuruMeditation You can upgrade but its like surgery. Risky stuff. I have an Imac and its 10 years old but I wouldn't stop using it. When it breaks, I have to fix it.

[@JustWasted3HoursHere]

If I remember correctly, the original price for the Apple 1 kit was $666.66 (Makes sense with Steve Jobs being an atheist)

[@TheGuruMeditation]

You are correct. Wikipedia says it is because Woz "liked repeating digits" and because of a one-third markup on the $500 wholesale price. But that certainly is an odd repeating number to choose. I bet you are right!

[@JustWasted3HoursHere]

@@TheGuruMeditation Maybe Woz is right, but who knows? In any case, the Apple-II was a HUGE leap forward in ease-of-use over the Apple-I.

[@TheGuruMeditation]

@@JustWasted3HoursHere It sure was! I had an Apple ii/e. It was way more advanced than this machine. But today I would rather have an Apple-1 ;-)

[@JustWasted3HoursHere]

@@TheGuruMeditation I can imagine why! I wonder how much that original breadboard wired test box that became the Amiga is worth and if it still exists anymore? (and if it still works! And who has it, etc...) This thing: images.app.goo.gl/yzpWhKeShMmWKxaw7

[@dunebasher1971]

@@TheGuruMeditation Not really very odd. $555.55 wouldn't have been enough of a markup and $777.77 would have been way too much. In any event, 666 as the supposed "number of the beast" only has meaning for those who believe in religion, specifically Christianity. Atheists don't care.

[@dopplerdog6817]

Some flashes of genius : (1) Woz's display circuitry on the II (2) Woz's disk controller/software (3) Wozmon/Sweet16. Most everything else Apple "created" after this is either conventional, overrated, or ripped off.

[@davidbrawn2828]

Primitive looking like you would see on the Flintstones.

[@TheGuruMeditation]

LOL

[@kopsonpnc]

Who want to buy?Hahaha

[@johneymute]

That’s just sooo cool, being able to connect the iphone to the apple 1 trough the hadphone jack,even the iphone 12 does not have that luxury because it lacks a headphone jack,why that bastard shill filler did not realized that the headphone jack could be still handy in cases like this?, only that’s why i consider my iphone 6 1000 times better then the stupid iphone 12 ,also the iphone 7 cannot stream data to the apple 1 because of this ,streaming data from the analogue world into the digital world to load programs into it that way, that’s such a cool feature of it,and those fotos as shown here were really cool.😁

[@dunebasher1971]

Yeah, because *sooooooo* many people need to use their iPhone to load data into their Apple 1. Seriously, if you're still bent out of shape over the lack of a headphone jack 6 years after it was phased out (and remember how it was predicted that the lack of a headphone jack would mean the iPhone 7 would fail horribly and Apple would be forced to bring it back?) you could do with giving your head a wobble.

[@johneygd]

@@dunebasher1971 well i would,ve applaud if the iphone 7 did fail horrible because of lacking a headphone jack and yes i am still bent over it 6 yearsvlater because putting a headphone jack on it was a step forward and removing it just became a step backwards,am mean what were they thinking.

[@erikvindelbeck3649]

First!!!! :-D

[@TheGuruMeditation]

BOOM!

[@sweetypuss]

was this filmed pre covid or something? hope so, because nobody is wearing a mask and its disturbing

[@BrazenBull001]

Do shut up

[@DieDeutscheWochenschau]

Can't the guys in the background just shut up for a view minutes while there is a presentation going on? So rude, unpolite and annoying I wouldn't have continued until I have the full attention of all vistors or ask the ones who don't care, to leave, especially if the presentation is to be uploaded to youtube

[@guysingerii]

Big Deal. It's just a stupid computer. I mean what have computers ever done for us anyway.............

[@abandonedprogram9391]

windows 11 is better