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Newly released photo shows first Apple computers stacked in cardboard boxes

It’s no secret that Apple Computer had humble beginnings back in the 1970s, with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak building the company’s Apple 1 computers in a garage.

While there are a number of photos of the Apple 1, as well as early Jobs and Woz doing their thing, the newest photo to emerge shows the young company’s primitive production line. The Daily Mail posted a never-before-seen photo of Apple’s first run of its Apple 1 computer.

article-2462931-18C5CBC000000578-776_634x452A lone monitor is seen, along with a soldering iron and some wiring – all used to build and test the production versions of the computers stacked on the left. Back then, computing was a hobbyist thing – much like owning a Raspberry Pi is, today – and Apple didn’t sell a their circuitry inside gorgeous enclosures. Instead, the circuit boards shipped in their cardboard boxes to enthusiasts who would rig them up in a way they wanted.

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We don’t need no fancy aluminium cases, here. This is hobbyist territory.

Most recently, an Apple 1 went on auction and sold for £441 600 – or around R6.9-million. Not that bad for a PC board in a box.

 

 

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