On Sat, Aug 5, 2023, 08:54 Bill Degnan via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> The Apple I is not historically significant enough alone to justify > the prices they get > The first product sold by the first company to hit $1T market cap seems historically significant to me. AFAIK the Apple 1 was also the first inexpensive (somewhat subjective) personal computer to include a composite video text display and a parallel keyboard interface. Such was possible with the PDP-8 and PDP-11/05, but they were very expensive, and it wasn't a normal configuration. Also possible with an S100 system, cheaper than a PDP-anything, but still much more expensive than Apple 1, and had to be configured out of a lot of pieces. There are a lot of "firsts" throughout the history of computing, and I'm sure that there is disagreement over the significance of many, but I think I'd have a very hard time justifying myself if I claimed the Apple 1 was not historically significant. Eric
