A movie in which only "Motown Apple I" existing in the world actually exists

Apple Computer released in July 1976Apple IIs the first machine to become prosperous Apple's first step later. Although Apple I was released at a price of 666 dollars and 66 cents (about 200,000 yen at the time of the time), it is said that the total production volume is less than 200 due to sales problems. As of 2014, the Apple I existing in the world in the world is around 50, and among them it is said to be only six in the world when it becomes a working item that operates at that time as it is, with the ultimate rare item among maniacs I am making it. A movie that allows such Apple I to actually operate and display various programs and graphics has been released.

Original Apple 1 setup - demo of a working piece of history - YouTube


Apple I spread on the desk and peripherals etc. The cathode ray tube monitor on the upper left and the cassette tape type storage at the lower right make the era feel.


That Apple 1 is one of the operable individuals who have only six in the world.


The letter "Apple Computer 1" on the board.


Since Apple 1 was sold just with the parts mounted on the board, it was a model that not only the tape deck for external storage but also the keyboard and the power supply unit were purchased separately or it was necessary to make their own work.


On the left side of the table are the manuals including the signature of Steve Wozniak.


And cathode ray tube monitor for external output. It also needed to arrange for this separately sold one.


First of all run a simple test code that is published in the manual and let all ASCII characters be displayed on the screen. First turn on the monitor.


Next turn on the power switch. The sound "Pune" emitted from a bare transformer makes me feel nostalgic.


The character string displayed on the monitor is said to be displayed when clearing the memory.


When you are ready, manually enter the code listed in the manual.


Characters were displayed safely.


Next, let's display "Hello World" on the screen.


When I input code and run it ......


"HELLO WORLD" was displayed on the screen.


I will try running BASIC saved in the cassette. You can see that the executable code is listed on the label of the cassette.


I just type in the code ...


Turn the player's play switch to match timing.


It takes about 30 seconds for BASIC to start up.


BASIC preparation is completed. Also enter "E000R" which was mentioned in the cassette, BASIC will start up. Compared with modern PCs, it will take time and effort.


I will try to run the program on BASIC. Enter an infinite loop program that continues to display until you stop the numbers in order.


After entering "RUN" and hitting Enter, the numbers were displayed with the relaxed momentum.


There is one more cassette. This is a demonstration program that displays graphics on the screen. Originally "GraPhiCs "should be spelled, why" GraFiIt is written as cs.


Also load the data in the same way ......


Enter the code and execute it.


Then, letters are displayed on the screen full ... ...


The face of Steve Wozniak was drawn using the shading of letters.


And another person has begun to be displayed ...... The rest is in the movie.


Apple I was not good at sales compared with Apple II which succeeded as successor, but it has become a rare collector item as a model which became the foundation of Apple, and it is a million a million in the world auction It is sometimes traded at a price of tens of millions of yen from yen. In December 2012, it is sold for about 52.8 million yen.

An action item of Apple I is auctioned and awarded at 50 million yen or more