Apple Computer on This Day in History

This Day in History: The Apple Computer 1, originally released as the Apple Computer, also known later as the Apple I, or Apple-1, is a desktop computer released by the Apple Computer in 1976. It was designed and hand-built by Steve Wozniak. The idea of selling the computer came from Woz's friend Steve Jobs. This computer has now become a collector's item. On September 25, 2018, an Apple I was purchased at a Dallas auction for $375,000 and on January 23, 2020, an Apple I was listed on eBay for $1,750,000.

Did you know: Samsung makes the processors for iPhones.

Before Apple's iPhone, Cisco Systems originally patented the name iPhone for its VoIP phone and later on, it sued Apple for calling its smartphone an iPhone.

If you use iTunes, you have agreed to not use Apple’s products to create nuclear weapons.

34 year old Aaron Chervenak married his smartphone at The Little Vegas Chapel in 2016. I'm pretty sure he dumped that phone 18 months later for an upgrade.

Something you never hear...but should: "I don't believe anything really revolutionary has ever been invented by committee… I'm going to give you some advice that might be hard to take. That advice is: Work alone… Not on a committee. Not on a team." Steve Wozniak

"By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it." Peter Kreeft (Roman Catholic philosopher)

"Good artists copy, great artists steal." Pirates of Silicon Valley