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Topics relating to the Apple 1 computer.

This is sometimes referred to as the "Apple I," with a Roman numeral, but in the original documentation it is always "Apple 1," with an arabic numeral. Apple did not switch to using Roman numerals until the Apple II.

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Was there ever any real use for a 6800-based Apple 1?

This is kind of a difficult question to phrase since the Apple 1 wasn't really that well adopted of a platform - under 200 of them made and mostly abandoned by the company within 2 years. That being said, it did have an interesting feature of being…
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Why was the original Apple Computer labeled as the Apple I?

As we all know, the Apple I computer didn't last very long as it was supplanted by the hugely successful Apple II about a year later. From what I've been able to find, it seems that since Woz was the sole engineer in those early days, once he…
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