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Posted by janandonly 5 days ago

Apple I Advertisement (1976)(apple1.chez.com)
https://computerhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Apple...
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PlatoIsADisease 5 days ago|
Interesting to think that:

>If Microsoft never bailed Apple out, this wouldn't be on the front page today

>If Apple didn't have the greatest marketing team of all time and nail the ipod commercial, this wouldn't be on the front page today

>If Apple charged competitive prices for the iphone, rather than make it a veblen good, this wouldn't be on the front page today.

If I could only consider how much luck is involved in life, it might make setbacks feel better.

raw_anon_1111 5 days ago|
Which is another myth that needs to die. Apple had a couple of billion in the bank from a loan that they secured and they lost much more than the measly $250 million that Microsoft invested. Not to mention that Apple
subtlesoftware 5 days ago||
"Compared to switches and LED's, a video terminal can dis- play vast amounts of information simultaneously."

The beginning of the end.

enzosaba 5 days ago|
Really. You start with 40x24 chars and after a little span of time end up doom scrolling
srinath693 4 days ago||
This was less a philosophy and more a competitive jab at Gates' "Open Letter to Hobbyists." Apple bundled BASIC for free because Woz wrote it himself, they had no software costs to recoup. Easy to be generous when your cofounder is the product.
veltas 4 days ago|
> Apple bundled BASIC for free because Woz wrote it himself, they had no software costs to recoup.

But in respect of Gates' letter, Woz didn't write that BASIC for free, he wrote it to enable his hardware platform and the time spent writing it is a cost/investment in the platform. Gates was just trying to make a business writing software without the hardware.

Also Apple are the ones that made Gates' sentiments a reality with the precedent set in Apple v Franklin (1983) defending the copyright of their BIOS software.

qingcharles 5 days ago||
Green PCB Prototype #0 Apple I just sold yesterday for $2.75m

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46843037

ghc 4 days ago||
Breadboard area?

That's a super cool! I had no idea the Apple I had such a hobbyist-centric inclusion. I wonder what people did with it.

lasgawe 4 days ago||
When I read this, I got a feeling of nostalgia. I do not know why. I was not even born when this was released.
dieselgate 4 days ago||
Per the address and contact number at bottom did the (415) area code formerly encompass Palo Alto?
cwicklein 5 days ago||
Expandable to 65K. I don’t recall seeing SI units used in this context until by hard disk manufacturers years later.
randomme 5 days ago|
I think that comes from 64k + 1k ("the video display section contains its own 1K bytes").
bwoah 5 days ago||
https://archive.is/dJvc
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