The LCF Group has several Apple 1 computers in our "Bugbook Historical Microcomputer Museum" and the stories about the early start up days of
Apple Company are always of interest.
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| Steven Wayhrich, MD |
The information below is from the website of
Steven Weyhrich,
a family practice physician in Omaha, Nebraska. Steven's writing's about Apple history is very informative and the paragraph below is directly from his web page.
The Start of the Apple Computer Company
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| Original Apple Logo |
""By early 1976, Steve Wozniak had completed his 6502-based computer and
would display enhancements or modifications at the bi-weekly Homebrew
Computer Club meetings.
Steve Jobs
was a 21 year old friend of Wozniak’s and also a visitor at the
Homebrew club. He had worked with Wozniak in the past (together they
designed the arcade game “
Breakout”
for Atari) and was very interested in his computer. During the design
process Jobs made suggestions that helped shape the final product, such
as the use of the newer dynamic RAMs instead of older, more expensive
static RAMs.
He suggested to Wozniak that they get some printed circuit boards made
for the computer and sell it at the club for people to assemble
themselves.
They pooled their financial resources together to have PC boards made, and on April 1st, 1976 they officially formed the
Apple Computer Company.
Jobs had recently worked at an organic apple orchard, and liked the
name because “he thought of the apple as the perfect fruit–it has a high
nutritional content, it comes in a nice package, it doesn’t damage
easily–and he wanted Apple to be the perfect company. Besides, they
couldn’t come up with a better name.” "" The above from Steven Weyhrich's website.
Read the whole story on Steven's website about how the Apple Computer Company was started by Jobs and Wozniak in 1976.
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| David & Gaynell | Larsen |
The interest in the Apple Computer Company is on the increase almost daily now. Several
movies are being produced about Steve Jobs and these increase buzz about Apple Inc. I was working in the early days of microcomputers as faculty member at
Virginia Tech and a member of the
Blackburg Group.
"by David Larsen"
KK4WW Computer Collector/Historian
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