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A lot of it, electronically,

I could figure out.

Some of it, visually,

there was no way to tell without...

...asking people, so I had to interview...

...owners or previous owners

of Apple I's to see:

"Hey, what does the cursor look like?

Is it solid, is it blinking?"

It's authentic and it's true to its

memory locations and it's functioning.

It will completely operate

just like the Apple I.

There wasrt really a lot of

commercial software available.

Most of the stuff was converted from...

...programs that were given out in

Creative Computing magazines...

...or written initially for another computer,

which was converted over to the Apple I.

There was no such thing

as a production case for it.

Most Apple I's that you see in a wooden

case, somebody built on their own.

One of the most common things l...

Questions I had was:

"Why didn't you

make it look like an Apple I?"

I didn't want people selling these

as forgeries, as being an actual Apple I.

For one, it's Woz's work, and I don't

want anybody infracting on that.

It's respect for the people

that actually do own the Apple I's.

I don't want this project

to devalue the Apple I.

I had tried getting ahold of somebody

from Apple and, you know, saying:

"This is what's going on. Can I get

permission to use the source code?"

I didn't hear anything back...

...so I tried to get ahold of Woz

through his website...

...and next thing you know,

Wozniak had written back, saying:

"Go ahead and use the source code.

I think it's, you know, a noble idea.

Apple probably wouldn't let you, but

the worst thing Apple could say was...

...that it was mine long before

there was an Apple computer."

He had given out the source code,

schematics and everything...

...at the Homebrew Computer Clubs

long before Apple existed.

So it was pretty much his source code

to give out.

I guess, yeah, they're kind of an

unlikely couple, an unlikely pair, to...

You know, Steve Wozniak

was the hardware genius.

He's kind of a blue-collar hacker,

interested only in the engineering.

Jobs was the salesman, the slick,

smooth talker, good-looking young guy.

You gotta remember, the Apple II

were designed essentially by kids...

...who didn't have any success

behind them.

And Woz is like a hero,

the great nerd hero of our times.

I mean, every geek and nerd

reveres Woz.

He is, you know, a living legend,

a demigod, a god amongst man.

Not only for his genius, but just

for that sort of purity of hacker spirit...

...you know,

the generosity of his genius.

The idea that he's not motivated

to enrich himself.

You know. He wants to build

astonishing things.

And he did.

This was more... The Apple II was more

like a work of art, it was whimsical.

It was outrageous,

some of the techniques in the ROM.

And so as I worked

my way through it, I thought:

"Who would design

in such a style and why?"

And it's just the greatest thing

I'd ever encountered.

It was very much like...

...reading a great novel

from an author you've never heard of...

...or hearing a great piece of music.

It captivated me.

It captivated me.

One of the biggest success stories

would have to be Team Number 1.

Team Number 1

was the original franchisee...

...of the Team Electronics chain.

Team Central was the organization...

...of all the Team Electronics stores,

some 100 stores...

...mostly in the upper Midwest,

and it continues to operate to this day.

They've changed their name

to FirstTech...

...with the demise of Team Electronics.

But to my knowledge,

that would make them...

...the longest continuously running

Apple reseller in the United States.

- There's more back there. Yeah.

- You've got a Bell + Howell.

I don't think we ever wanna fly this.

It's probably not...

- Not flight-won'thy?

- Whoa, is that a kite?

- It is, but it's just too valuable, you know.

- Oh, yeah.

We got an Apple III back there

and some other stuff too.

But most... This is mostly the fun stuff.

- Oh, yeah.

- And we're pretty sure it all works.

Back in 1977, I convinced my boss...

At the time I was working as a buyer...

...for the Team Electronics chain, which

was headquartered here in Minneapolis.

- Convinced him to let me go to the

first annual West Coast Computer Faire.

Out there, I discovered

a number of companies.

I'd gone to look

at the processor Sol machine.

I was already aware of the Altair.

Discovered a little company

called Apple...

...who had a pretty good-sized booth

right inside the front door.

Struck up a conversation

with the gentleman...

...who told me they really

werert producing yet.

It would probably be later that year,

October, something like that.

The gentleman seemed

quite knowledgeable...

...and once he found out

that I was a buyer...

...for a chain of electronics stores,

was very interested...

...and it turned out the person

I was talking to was Mike Markkula.

Mike proceeded to talk to us about

the program over the coming months...

...we put together agreements

and whatnot, and in the end...

...he grabbed one of the first machines

to come off the line...

...put it in a bag, jumped on an airplane

and brought it to Minneapolis.

This was that machine.

And you'll notice that the bag

does not have a bite out of the apple.

I don't know if that was a mistake on the

part of the people who produced it...

...or more likely, that it was produced

early on, before Apple decided...

...taking the bite out of the apple...

...would make it more registerable,

if that's a word.

And this is the original brochure...

...that came with the Apple II,

or for the Apple II.

It's very simple,

has an apple on the cover.

And if you'll notice

on the wall beside us...

...there is a photo

that looks suspiciously familiar.

That is one of three photos

that was ever produced in photo form.

I was given one for Christmas

by Mike Markkula...

...l'm told that their banker

at the Bank of America got one...

...and that there was

a third one at Apple.

And to my knowledge...

...there are probably only one or two

in existence any longer today.

You'll notice many of the things here

on the original brochure.

One was that they came

with cassette tapes to load the programs.

For a long time, we sold

Apple cassette-tape machines...

...to sell with the machine because

they couldn't get them otherwise.

Remember, the computer

was fairly expensive.

In fact, I happen to have

an October 1977 price list.

And a computer system

with 16K of RAM...

...which was what

we typically sold it at...

...was $1698.

Now, you can have

a good chuckle today...

...16K was $540.

So to outfit a machine completely

would take you up to about $40,000.

These are the pieces of software

that were available originally with it.

There was a checkbook,

home-management cassette.

There was the Breakout game,

which was a little bit like Pong...

...a Star Trek game

and high-res graphics routines.

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