From what it looks like, the difficulty shouldn't be in getting a board made or soldering them, but sourcing the parts. Other than the odd 74 series ICs, the design includes some (I think memory?) chips that are nowadays more difficult to find than the 6502 & 6520.
[Insert obligatory personal although almost meaningless anecdotes about seeing Woz's castle-themed house when it was first built and almost running over SJ with my VW Westfalia.]
[And literally almost physically colliding into Tim Cook in Los Altos where Garage Technology Ventures used to be.]
[If you need someone important ran into accidentally, I guess that's about my only natural talent.]
hopelite 8 hours ago [-]
Does Apple have one of these? It seems they definitely have the money to buy it.
nielsbot 4 hours ago [-]
There was one on display at their original campus for a while but i believe it was donated to the Computer History Museum
volemo 2 hours ago [-]
If they do, I’m considering Severance a documentary.
hcfman 3 hours ago [-]
Maybe they spent it all on the Birkin bag?
lwansbrough 8 hours ago [-]
Poor Woz perpetually haunted by Steve’s shadow.
bigyabai 7 hours ago [-]
His departure from Apple feels like potent foreshadowing of the Apple Steve envisioned. I remember feeling confused hearing the Apple II story growing up, but as I mature in the industry I really empathize with Woz's lack of patience for bad administration. Feels likely that Steve coveted that attitude, maybe a bit too much for an impromptu business administrator.
F7F7F7 6 hours ago [-]
Apple is unabashedly, outwardly, privacy focused. Just their law enforcement policies put them way ahead of their competitors. But this argument usually deteriorates to "they are all the same!" so I won't even bother making a case for them.
What I will say that if Apple is what Woz feared. Then what's OpenAI and X/Grok and Google and Facebook (hell bench on world domination)? Unimaginable?
Chorus They are all the same! Chorus
Apple helped create the black rectangle monolith appliances-in-a-smartphone plague. But they are not even in the top 10 list of companies I'm currently worried about. They are far more embarrassing than dangerous as of late.
cornholio 5 hours ago [-]
I think you are attributing to choice what can easily be explained by contigent circumstances.
Apple is privacy focused because it's a lifestyle and tech fashion company that competes with internet data brokers. Apple's instincts for monopoly power, locking down the market and choking life out of their complements is second to none.
Given the opportunity, all successful tech CEOs are bred and selected to burn the world down if the result is aligned to their power goals.
hcfman 3 hours ago [-]
I'm kinda torn between the Birkin bag and this.
belter 2 hours ago [-]
Go with the bag, since there is no evidence to support these claims by Sotheby's
Based on historical records, the evidence suggests that only less than 150 to 200 Apple-1 computers were ever made and the assembly team was Wozniak who did most technical assembly, with help from Daniel Kottke, Patty Jobs (Steve's sister), and occasional friends.
Also....the actual video title is: "The Finest Operational Apple-1 Computer in Existence - Handmade by Steve Jobs - Is Now at Sotheby's" an even more wild claim. Then editorialized here to be called in the title of this submission: " Apple-1 Computer, handmade by Jobs and Woz"
The video has low credibility, and changing the title wont change that.
Jobs role has always been reported as business/sales focused rather than hands-on assembly.
allanrbo 7 hours ago [-]
Handmade by Jobs, not Woz?
dvrp 7 hours ago [-]
...and Wozniak.
mig39 6 hours ago [-]
Yeah, the video mentions both names. Whoever made the title didn't include Wozniak, but the video definitely does.
tomhow 5 hours ago [-]
We updated the title to credit both, thanks!
dvrp 5 hours ago [-]
That's awesome; making the world a better place one title diff at a time haha.
From what it looks like, the difficulty shouldn't be in getting a board made or soldering them, but sourcing the parts. Other than the odd 74 series ICs, the design includes some (I think memory?) chips that are nowadays more difficult to find than the 6502 & 6520.
[And literally almost physically colliding into Tim Cook in Los Altos where Garage Technology Ventures used to be.]
[If you need someone important ran into accidentally, I guess that's about my only natural talent.]
What I will say that if Apple is what Woz feared. Then what's OpenAI and X/Grok and Google and Facebook (hell bench on world domination)? Unimaginable?
Chorus They are all the same! Chorus
Apple helped create the black rectangle monolith appliances-in-a-smartphone plague. But they are not even in the top 10 list of companies I'm currently worried about. They are far more embarrassing than dangerous as of late.
Apple is privacy focused because it's a lifestyle and tech fashion company that competes with internet data brokers. Apple's instincts for monopoly power, locking down the market and choking life out of their complements is second to none.
Given the opportunity, all successful tech CEOs are bred and selected to burn the world down if the result is aligned to their power goals.
Based on historical records, the evidence suggests that only less than 150 to 200 Apple-1 computers were ever made and the assembly team was Wozniak who did most technical assembly, with help from Daniel Kottke, Patty Jobs (Steve's sister), and occasional friends.
Also....the actual video title is: "The Finest Operational Apple-1 Computer in Existence - Handmade by Steve Jobs - Is Now at Sotheby's" an even more wild claim. Then editorialized here to be called in the title of this submission: " Apple-1 Computer, handmade by Jobs and Woz"
The video has low credibility, and changing the title wont change that.
Jobs role has always been reported as business/sales focused rather than hands-on assembly.