Do you know what the first Apple looked like?

Apple IDaniel Turner has posted a nice photo of the Apple I, designed by company co-founder Steve “Woz” Wozniak, at MIT’s Technology Review.

If you’re not familiar with the computer landscape of 1976, you might be shocked to see that it’s actually just a circuit board. Buyers of the “affordable” $666.66 product (about $2,400 in today’s dollars) had to hook up their own keyboards, displays, and power supplies.

Only about 200 of the Apple I motherboards were made before the Apple II was introduced in 1977 and (as Apple still notes in all their press releases) “ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s.”

Aren’t you glad you’re living after the revolution?

The Apple I

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