Comments on: Behold, some of the first Apple computer photos ever

By: jcw3rd

jcw3rd — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 12:55:01 +0000

I bought parts from them and wire-wrapped my own 8080 CPM box. S100 bus, Northstar hard-sector disk controller, California Computer Systems CPU board, 64k of ram. Three 76k hard-sector floppies. Yea, those were the days.

By: CitizenX

CitizenX — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 00:36:45 +0000

I worked for the Terrell brothers at the Byte Shop NorthWest in Seattle, WA from 1980 to 1985. Great times were had by all.
I used to hang around their store in 77 lusting after the Apples that they had on display. I couldn’t afford one being newly married but I could settle for a Rat Shack Model 1 in 1977 for my “Christmas” present.

I applied for a sales job with them advertised in January of 1980 but never heard back from them. In July they called and remembered me and offered me a job. The rest is history.

By: old guy

old guy — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 19:51:14 +0000

My boss had an Apple I which we built into a glass coffee table. I have some photographs around here somewhere…

By: DeRS

DeRS — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 19:49:15 +0000

This article is wrong:

“buyers would have to solder the necessary chips onto the circuit board themselves”

Apple I had chips already soldered, and power supply included. Jobs’ was always integrator, so he insisted that they would do and sell as assembled device as they could at the time.

The next step would be manufacturing complete PC, which was Apple II.

By: 1Racer

1Racer — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 19:20:55 +0000

“atarted” LOL, at first I thought you typed some other word. MDN really needs an edit button.

By: CupertinoJoe

CupertinoJoe — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 18:52:52 +0000

I remember the Byte shop well. I bought my Apple 2 there, and my first Mac in Palo Alto at Mac Attic. Joined the MUG in Sunnyvale that Wozniak atarted and lead. Great times.

By: Djp

Djp — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 18:34:03 +0000

Old news (literally).