• IBM 026 Punch-Card Machine – 1949
• Stibitz 1-Bit Model K Adder – 1980
• IBM RAMAC Actuator and Disk Stack – 1956
• Control Data Corp. 6600 Supercomputer – 1964
• Data General Nova, Serial No. 1 – 1969
• Honeywell Kitchen Computer – 1969
• Regency TR-1 Transistor Radio – 1954
• Pong – 1972
The result: Apple 1 – 1975. “Steve Wozniak built the Apple I completely by hand and showed it off at the Homebrew Computer Club, a computer hobbyist club in Palo Alto,” Snyder and Chen report. “The Apple I didn’t work on its own: It was a fully assembled circuit board with about 60 chips that required owners to get their own case, power supply, display and so on before they could use it as a computer.”
Snyder and Chen report, “An idealistic Woz wasn’t interested in making money, and he gave away the instructions to build the Apple I for free. ‘I wanted to accelerate the world’s advancement into a social revolution,’ Woz said. ‘Eventually Steve Jobs came and said, ‘Why don’t we build it for them?””
Full article with photos and descriptions of each item here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Judge Bork” for the heads up.]
