| EarlyApple Apple 1 - The second "rescued" - almost as pretty as the first... IMSAI at Apple? - Yup, and it played an important role... Here are the items from the 2010 eBay Auction: Apple 1 - All original components - in the beginning... (sold) Apple II - Revision 0->1 Engineering Prototype - the genesis machine (sold) Apple II - Bare Revs 0 thru 4 - a lot of begat'n happening (sold) Apple III - Wire Wrap Prototype - evolution continues (sold) Disk II - Serial Number 000001 - "There can only be one." (sold) Disk II Controller - Original Prototype - breadboard, hand wired by Woz (sold) Disk II Controller - First PCB - bare board prototype, layed out by Woz (sold) Disk II Analog PCB - first board, layed out by Cliff (sold) Mouse Prototype - Apples first mouse mechanicals (sold) ProDOS Kernel Listing - Original Apple Engineering Documentation (sold) Newton "Cadillac" - iPad ancestor revealed! (sold) Newton "BIC" - an almost shipped iPad ancestor (sold) Apple Logo Sunglasses - better than rose colored (not sold) The Less Great, but still interesting stuff: Newton MP Alternative case design - removable hard cover (sold) Newton Keyboard prototype - helps protect against identy theft! (sold) The Red and Blue Books - gee, it's like Simon and Garfunkle. (sold) The Apple Phone Book - End of '83: who really was at Apple when the Mac shipped? (sold) 1982 Time Magazine - Steve Jobs on the cover (sold) Newton Dummy - Store Display ...and there is 2 of 'em! (sold) 1984 Apple Annual Report - but who's counting... (sold) Invitation to "Apple II Forever" - April 1984 with an earthquake (sold) Apple II Catalog - First Printing, May '78 (sold) Apple II Catalog - 2nd Printing, July '78 - and some newsletters (sold) |
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Sellers: Brothers Dick and Cliff Huston were early Apple engineers, employee numbers 25 and 27 respectively, from late 1977 to mid 1984. They were there to celebrate when Apple shipped 100 computers in a single month. Working along side Woz, both were involved with the creation of the Apple II disk drive - Cliff designed the analog board in the drive, while Dick wrote the 13-sector "boot" ROM and fixed bugs in DOS. They also contributed to other early peripheral products, including the printer card(s), high speed serial card, and graphics tablet. Dick worked on DOS 3.2, Apple III SOS, ProFile hard disk, ProDOS, and Apple IIc. While working at Apple's Disk Division, Cliff "moonlighted" with the Macintosh group to integrate the Sony 3.5" floppy drive into the Mac design (have you ever seen a Macintosh with a 5.25" Twiggy drive? - they existed). After leaving Apple, the brothers teamed up with other ex-Apple employees to found a company called "The Engineering Department, Inc.", also known as TED. The President and CTO of TED was Wendell Sander (Apple employee #16), who had done the digital design of many Apple peripheral products, cleanup of the Apple II design, the "Integrated Woz Machine" (IWM) disk controller chip, the Apple III, and many other projects. TED continued working with Apple as an outside contractor, producing prototypes such as Apple's first ARM-based project (the ARM was used later in Newton), chip designs such as the SWIM disk controller ("Sander-Wozniak Integrated Machine", not "Super-Wozniak Integrated Machine" as reported!), and support for Apple projects such as the Apple IIc-plus (TED integrated the 3.5" floppy disk). TED also design ed(hardware and software) "Little Blue", better known as Applied Engineering's PC-Transporter fpr Apple IIe and Apple IIGS. Dick returned to Apple to work in Newton group from 1994 to 1998. He worked on the Newton Connection Kit application and later on the Newton OS for the MP120/130 and MP2000/2100 series of Newtons. |
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Offerings: Many of the items were rescued from being lost during office and laboratory moves in the early days at Apple. They were "just prototypes" and "junk" that were cluttering up the place and weren't deemed worthy for storing. Management approval was always obtained for taking the rescued items... The items accumulated at their homes in boxes, closets, and drawers. What might have been lost, all these years later, are now historical relics that deserve better treatment and appreciation as collector items or museum pieces. Some other items are being offered that are merely memorabilia. No suggestions of historical value are made for these items. As much as practical, the rare or one of a kind items are accompanied with "Provenance" - written documentation and statements by their creator and/or a witness that they are indeed the genuine article. Please read the the offering description carefully, before bidding, so you understand exactly what is included in the offering. |