Apple 1's were built in batches and each batch had a slightly different mix of components.  This is an attempt to catalog known Apple 1s and provide as much detail as possible about each one.  The earliest known owner,  will be used as the base identifier.

The Apple-1 sold today came with the original packaging, manuals, cassette interface and basic tape, early documentation and provenance, and a commercially rare letter from Steve Jobs.

Two hundred Apple-1 computers are estimated to have been created and sold for $666.66 before Apple Computer Inc. was founded in 1977. Once the Apple II, the company's first official product, was released, many of the Apple-1 models were reclaimed as trade-ins. Only about 50 are still known to exist, many of them indexed by hardware developer Mike Willegal.

Of those 200 machines, Christie's Apple-1 is No. 82. This same Apple-1 is thought to be the same one that was sold on eBay in November 2009 by a user named "apple1sale" to "julescw72". At the time, it sold for a winning bid of $50,000.

The original Apple-1 was sold as a fully assembled circuit board with 4KB of memory but no case, power supply, keyboard or monitor. Christie's Apple-1 included the machine's original packaging, manuals, cassette interface and basic tape, documentation and a letter from Steve Jobs, but some parts may not have been original, said computer hobbyist and retrocomputing expert Eric Rucker.

"The CPU is a Rockwell plastic part, not a MOS [6502] white ceramic part," he noted, identifying what Christie's item description called "a few slightly later additions." Apple-1 inventor and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak was on hand for the auction, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The winner of the Christie's auction was Marco Boglione, an Italian collector.

myoldmac.net presents: 68K Finder

Commemorating the 28´th Anniversary of the Macintosh on January 24, 2012, myoldmac.net is proud to present the first vintage Macintosh Locator App for mobile phones: 68K Finder

Please open www.myoldmac.net/mobile/
with your mobile device, then tap “Add to Bookmarks” for easy, one-tap access. This is version 1.0 - launched January 24, 2012, please report any bugs.

What the hack is a web-app ?

The web-app resides on server and is accessed via the Internet. It performs specified tasks - potentially all the same ones as a native application - for the mobile user, usually by downloading part of the application to the device for local processing each time it is used. The software is written as Web pages in HTML and CSS, with the interactive parts in Java. This means that the same application can be used by most mobile devices that can surf the Web (regardless of the brand of phone).

Main 68K Finder Features

• Displays 68K Macintosh collectibles on the US eBay market
• Currency converter (updated several times on trade days)
• Vintage Macintosh serial number decoder
• Actual 68K Macintosh News (updates when loading the web-app)
• Hidden Easter Egg (s)

Please promote 68K Finder on your favorite blog or forum. Here is a press kit including images and text zip file

Worth a viewing: Cult Of Mac

 In late 1983, people began seeing odd commercials on TV, commercials which promised a new kind of computer. One that promised (borrowing from the Orwell novel) 1984 won't be like Nineteen Eighty-Four."

Happy Birthday Macintosh!

Steven P. Jobs passed away on October 5th, 2011 after a long struggle with pancreatic cancer. He was just 56 years old. We mourn his passing, and wish his family the very best. The Apple chairman and former CEO who made personal computers, smartphones, tablets, and digital animation mass-market products passed away today. We're going to miss him. Deeply, and personally.

In 1976 he started Apple in a garage. Together with Steve Wozniak, he shipped the first true fully-built personal computer, the Apple I. He drove development of the Mac, understanding that it was the future of computers. The great thing that we would all see.

Prior to Steve Jobs, computers were alien to most of us. They were accessible to few people without an engineering degree. Not merely because of their complex operating procedures, but also because they were so cold and so inhuman. Jobs understood that they could be something more than that. That while computers would never be people, he could endow them with humanity. He could transform them into machines that not only anyone could use, but that everyday people would enjoy using thanks to the art of great design. He made them something that would be part of our lives. And he did that again and again.

He changed the way movies are made, the way music is sold, the way stories are told, the very way we interact with the world around us. He helped us work, and gave us new ways to play. He was a myth made man. Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being. Steve leaves behind a company that only he could build, and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple.

If you would like to share your thoughts, memories, and condolences, please email rememberingsteve@apple.com or sing in our gestbook.

 If you are a retourning visitor you know the Apple Macintosh eBay pages. Since five years there has been also a Commodore Section at myoldmac.net where i offered some of my collectors items. Because I sold most of my vintage Commodore gems I changed the pages to a Commodore Locator. You can search for Commodore PET, VIC-20, C-64, C128k, Amiga Computer and their periphery. Have a look to the updated Commodore pages and check back often.

I am using the Commodore PET Font as headline font, many thanks to Rebecca Bettencourt at www.kreativekorp.com !

Urban Renewal by Rebecca Bettencourt is a set of insanely great TrueType versions of the long-forgotten city-named fonts of Mac OS Classic, not seen since System 7.1. These TrueType versions are kare-fully constructed to be as faithful to the original designs as possible, while breaking free of the bitmap grid in subtle ways. www.myoldmac.net is using the Los Altos Font as headline font, many thanks to Rebecca Bettencourt at www.kreativekorp.com !

With the economy in the tank, you or someone you know is probably putting off the decision to buy a new Mac. But what about a used Mac? Sure, it doesn’t have all the glitz of a shiny new unibody MacBook, but an older-generation MacBook might just do the trick for a lot less money. Heck, you’d be surprised at how well an older iBook G4 can still handle just about everything that you might want to do.

Please visit my new project: www.myoldmac.com ! If you’re looking for a used Apple Macintosh or Mac-compatible peripherals, at myoldmac.com you can find a solution that fits your budget.

Interview with Rob Janoff, designer of the Apple logo

Rob Janoff in 2009 

The Ultimate Apple II Font

Download the world's most complete Apple II text font, in TrueType format. Works on Mac OS X, Windows, or any operating system that supports TrueType.

Also download the corresponding keyboard layout for Mac OS X, called IN Number Zero. Option key enables access to inverse characters. Control-Shift enables access to MouseText characters.

Additional characters have been added to the font to support all of ISO-Latin-1, Windows ANSI, and MacRoman, as well as box drawing characters and other miscellaneous Unicode characters. These additional characters have been modeled after the actual accented characters on international versions of the Apple II where possible. MouseText is encoded at 0x80-0x9F, and at the appropriate Unicode code points where possible.

APPLE COMPUTER'S FIRST TRADE SIGN For sell is the very first sign used by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak to promote their fledgling start-up, Apple Computer Co. at the first trade shows they attended in 1976, and which remained in service for years outside the company's headquarters in Cupertino, California. The sign measures an impressive 100" long x 22 1/2" tall, and its original weathered wood frame is about 1 1/2" thick. You can bid on this piece of computer history at http://auctions.alexautographs.com

picture courtessy of alexautographs.com