Apple-1 (1975)
Accession Number: X210.83
Gift of Dysan Corporation

The Apple-1 was designed by California youngster Steve Wozniak as a "way of showing off" to his friends at the Homebrew Computer Club. For $666.66, the buyer received the Printed Circuit Board (PCB) shown here, a bag of parts, and a 16-page assembly manual. When a Mountain View computer store, The Byte Shop, ordered 50 of these, Wozniak and a friend, Steve Jobs, went into small-scale production. Based on the success of the Apple-1's sales, "the two Steves" attracted financing and started Apple Computer.