{"id":338558,"date":"2017-04-18T01:14:14","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T17:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/?p=1475088"},"modified":"2017-04-18T01:14:14","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T17:14:14","slug":"steve-jobs-custom-apple-i-and-other-historic-machines-are-on-display-at-seattle-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/steve-jobs-custom-apple-i-and-other-historic-machines-are-on-display-at-seattle-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Jobs\u2019 custom Apple I and other historic machines are on display at Seattle museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2017\/04\/17\/new-yorks-taxi-commission-to-propose-in-app-tipping-requirement-for-uber\/\" class=\"next-link\" data-omni-sm=\"art_nextstory\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Next Story<\/p>\n<p><h4 class=\"next-title\">New York\u2019s Taxi commission to propose in-app tipping requirement for\u00a0Uber<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"122.61488673139\">\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube c5\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player c4\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LTJPdHeibOQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;autohide=2&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Long before the iPhone or even the Mac, Apple was a handful of people working in an industry that was only just beginning to take the idea of personal computing seriously. In the earliest days of those early days, Steves Wozniak and Jobs made their first device together: the Apple I. Few of these were sold, and fewer still survive \u2014 but the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.livingcomputers.org\/\">Living Computers museum<\/a> in Seattle managed to get three. And one of them was Jobs\u2019 personal machine.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Allen, the museum\u2019s founder and patron, has caused to be assembled quite an impressive collection of devices from Apple\u2019s history, many of which have been restored to working condition. The public will be able to tinker with a NeXT Cube as well as early Macs, but the pride and joy of the collection must be the Apple Is.<\/p>\n<p>The new exhibit, which highlights the collaboration and competition between Apple and Microsoft over the years as the companies grew, is open today.<\/p>\n<p>The Apple I, you may or may not remember, wasn\u2019t much of a hit. Only 200 were made \u2014 by hand \u2014 and it wasn\u2019t long before the company put its hopes in the Apple II, which would go on to be more popular by far. One of the Is, however, Jobs kept in his office as a demo machine for industry people.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inset inset-sm inset-section\">\n<section class=\"aside section video-aside crunchreport collapse collapse-adjacent\" data-video-id=\"58f13d73955a317b1178ca9b\">\n<h2 class=\"collapse-title section-title\">Latest <span>Crunch Report<\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"collapse-body cf\">\n<ul class=\"vid-list cf\">\n<li class=\"block vid-feature\" data-lightbox-omniture=\"crunchreport\" readability=\"-2\">\n<div class=\"block block-inset\" readability=\"7\"><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/video\/star-wars-the-last-jedi-trailer-woooah-crunch-report\/58f13d73955a317b1178ca9b\/?ncid=rightrail_cr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.vidible.tv\/prod\/2017-04\/14\/58f13d73955a317b1178ca9b\/58f13e5ce9399f066503e8f7_o_U_v1.png?w=300&#038;h=170\" alt=\"'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' Trailer...Woooah | Crunch Report\" data-lightbox-url=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/video\/star-wars-the-last-jedi-trailer-woooah-crunch-report\/58f13d73955a317b1178ca9b\/lightbox\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><h3>&#8216;Star Wars: The Last Jedi&#8217; Trailer&#8230;Woooah | Crunch Report<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/video\/crunchreport\/?ncid=rightrail_crmore\" class=\"text-btn\" data-omni-sm=\"rightrail_crmore\">Watch More Episodes<\/a><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/aside>\n<p>When Jobs left in 1985 he left in a hurry, and this I was left behind on a shelf. Don Hutmacher, one of the company\u2019s first employees, grabbed it and it stayed in his possession until he passed away last year. His wife generously allowed the museum to take care of it, and you can imagine their gratitude.<\/p>\n<p>The team had their suspicious, but a tag inside the metal chassis \u2014 and the fact that it had a chassis at all, since Apple Is came just as boards \u2014 suggested it was more than a rare Apple I; it was the rarest. It\u2019s signed \u201cBF,\u201d which would have been employee number one, Bill Fernandez. This was definitely, the team decided, Jobs\u2019 custom machine.<\/p>\n<p>Because the Apple I didn\u2019t have a ROM, and Jobs didn\u2019t want to have to program it from scratch any time someone wanted to see it in action, he had a custom EPROM attached to it that initialized the computer with BASIC when it started up. Its RAM, the engineering team suspects, was also augmented so it didn\u2019t run out and crash during the demo.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/apple-exhibit-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1477118\" src=\"https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/apple-exhibit-1.jpg?w=1024&#038;h=656\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"656\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/apple-exhibit-1.jpg?w=1024&#038;h=656 1024w, https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/apple-exhibit-1.jpg?w=2048&#038;h=1312 2048w, https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/apple-exhibit-1.jpg?w=150&#038;h=96 150w, https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/apple-exhibit-1.jpg?w=300&#038;h=192 300w, https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/apple-exhibit-1.jpg?w=768&#038;h=492 768w, https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/apple-exhibit-1.jpg?w=680&#038;h=436 680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The team at the museum read the contents of this EPROM and used it to set up a second, less historic Apple I. That one, which has had its power components modified to be a little less prone to catching fire or warping the circuit board, will now be available in this primed state for anyone to play with. Yes, anyone \u2014 the only operational Apple I on the planet right now, and your kid can type \u201cbutts\u201d on it with fingers still greasy from the sandwich they got across the street.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inset inset-sm inset-section\">\n<div class=\"section aside crunchbase-cluster collapse\">\n<h3 class=\"section-title collapse-title\">Crunchbase<\/h3>\n<div class=\"collapse-body\">\n<ul class=\"crunchbase-accordion\">\n<li class=\"data-card crunchbase-card active\" data-crunchbase-url=\"https:\/\/crunchbase.com\/person\/steve-jobs\/\">\n<h4 class=\"card-title card-acc-handle\"><a class=\"cb-card-title-link\" href=\"https:\/\/crunchbase.com\/person\/steve-jobs\/\">Steve Jobs<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"card-acc-panel\">\n<ul class=\"card-info\">\n<li class=\"cb-card-description full\"><strong class=\"key\">Bio<\/strong> <span class=\"value\">Steve Jobs was the co-founder and CEO of [Apple](<a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/company\/apple\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/company\/apple<\/a>) and formerly [Pixar](\/company\/pixar). Steve Jobs was born in San Francisco, California to Joanne Simpson and a Syrian father. Paul and Clara Jobs of Mountain View, California then adopted him. In 1972, Jobs graduated from Homestead High School in Cupertino, California and enrolled in Reed College in Portland, \u2026<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"full profile\"><a href=\"https:\/\/crunchbase.com\/person\/steve-jobs\" target=\"_blank\">Full profile for Steve Jobs<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>That\u2019s the mission of the museum, though: the Apple I, along with dozens of other ancient computers, from Altairs to mainframes from the 60\u2019s, are deliberately there to be touched and, if not truly understood (few kids know BASIC these days), at least experienced.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the exhibit\u2019s opening, a small reunion was held for a handful of people who had a hand in the early days of Apple, Microsoft, and the home computer industry. Steve Wosniak and Paul Allen met \u2014 for the first time, amazingly \u2014 and chatted over an Apple II. And it wasn\u2019t until someone took stock of the situation that they realized that the entire original team that built the Apple I in Steve Jobs\u2019 garage \u2014 minus the departed Steve \u2014 were together again for the first time in decades:<\/p>\n<div class=\"slideshow slideshowify\">\n<ol>\n<li>\n<div class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-thumb=\"https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/apple-1-team-retouched.jpg?w=80&#038;h=60&#038;crop=1\" data-full-size-image=\"https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/apple-1-team-retouched.jpg\" data-large-size-image=\"https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/apple-1-team-retouched.jpg?w=1&#038;h=1\" data-trigger-notification=\"1\" data-scalable=\"false\" alt=\"\" data-src=\"https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/apple-1-team-retouched.jpg?w=1&#038;h=1\" data-tc-lazyload=\"deferred\" src=\"https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/techcrunch-2013\/assets\/images\/1x1.png\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"\/><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"title\">Apple 1 Team Retouched<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-thumb=\"https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/apple-group-with-labels-v2-01.jpg?w=80&#038;h=60&#038;crop=1\" data-full-size-image=\"https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/apple-group-with-labels-v2-01.jpg\" data-large-size-image=\"https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/apple-group-with-labels-v2-01.jpg?w=1&#038;h=1\" data-trigger-notification=\"1\" data-scalable=\"false\" alt=\"\" data-src=\"https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/apple-group-with-labels-v2-01.jpg?w=1&#038;h=1\" data-tc-lazyload=\"deferred\" src=\"https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/techcrunch-2013\/assets\/images\/1x1.png\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"\/><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"title\">Apple Group with Labels V2-01<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-thumb=\"https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/paul-allen-and-woz.jpg?w=80&#038;h=60&#038;crop=1\" data-full-size-image=\"https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/paul-allen-and-woz.jpg\" data-large-size-image=\"https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/paul-allen-and-woz.jpg?w=1&#038;h=1\" data-trigger-notification=\"1\" data-scalable=\"false\" alt=\"\" data-src=\"https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/paul-allen-and-woz.jpg?w=1&#038;h=1\" data-tc-lazyload=\"deferred\" src=\"https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/techcrunch-2013\/assets\/images\/1x1.png\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"\/><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"title\">Paul Allen and Woz<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol><\/div>\n<p>The museum has also been working with the University of Washington to compile an oral history of this era of computing, and many of the people who figured in the creation of the Apple I.<\/p>\n<p>Now that the exhibit is open, feel free to drop by the museum and touch a few pieces of computing history \u2014 though you may need to brush up on your BASIC.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"502\" src=\"https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/inf_2109.jpg?w=680\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/inf_2109.jpg?w=680 680w, https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/inf_2109.jpg?w=1360 1360w, https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/inf_2109.jpg?w=150 150w, https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/inf_2109.jpg?w=300 300w, https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/inf_2109.jpg?w=768 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/>&nbsp;Long ago, Apple was a handful of people working in an industry that was only just beginning to take the idea of personal computing seriously. 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And one of them was Jobs&#8217;&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2017\/04\/17\/steve-jobs-custom-apple-i-and-other-historic-machines-are-on-display-at-seattle-museum\/?ncid=rss\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?a=NzAaTX1hl1I:dVn51_NKano:2mJPEYqXBVI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?d=2mJPEYqXBVI\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?a=NzAaTX1hl1I:dVn51_NKano:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?a=NzAaTX1hl1I:dVn51_NKano:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?a=NzAaTX1hl1I:dVn51_NKano:-BTjWOF_DHI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?i=NzAaTX1hl1I:dVn51_NKano:-BTjWOF_DHI\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?a=NzAaTX1hl1I:dVn51_NKano:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?i=NzAaTX1hl1I:dVn51_NKano:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?a=NzAaTX1hl1I:dVn51_NKano:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Techcrunch\/~4\/NzAaTX1hl1I\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[59,66,26],"class_list":["post-338558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-media","tag-techcrunch","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}