Key facts
- Also known as
- Apple I, Apple-1
- Developer
- Steve Wozniak
- Manufacturer
- Apple Computer Company
- Type
- Motherboard -only personal computer kit
- Released
- July 1976 ; 49 years ago ( 1976-07 )
- Introductory price
- $600.00 (equivalent to $3,400 in 2025)
- Discontinued
- September 30, 1977 ; 48 years ago ( 1977-09-30 )
- Units sold
- c. 175 to 200
- Operating system
- Custom system monitor
- Cpu
- MOS 6502 @ 1 MHz
- Memory
- 4 or 8 KB
- Storage
- 256 B ROM
- Removable storage
- Cassette tape
- Graphics
- 40×24 characters, hardware-implemented scrolling ( Signetics 2513 "64×8×5 Character Generator" )
- Marketing target
- Early hobbyist
- Successor
- Apple II
- Made in
- USA
via Wikipedia infobox
Article
The Apple Computer 1 (Apple-1), often referred to as the Apple I (written with a Roman numeral), is an 8-bit personal computer electrically designed by Steve Wozniak and released by the Apple Computer Company (now Apple Inc.) in 1976. The company was initially formed to sell the Apple I – its first product – and would later become the world's largest technology company. The idea of starting a company and selling the computer came from Wozniak's friend and Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
The key differentiator of the Apple I was that it included video display terminal circuitry, allowing it to connect to a low-cost composite video monitor and keyboard instead of an expensive accompanying terminal such as the Teletype Model 33 commonly used by other early personal computers. The Apple I and the Sol-20 were some of the earliest home computers to have this capability.