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Apple’s groundbreaking early years: 1976 to 1985

Macworld Apple’s first decade is filled with products that are iconic, not just within Apple’s own history, but the history ...

A farmer’s letter revealed what Apple would become: Inside a reporter’s first look at the company

In 1977, a Mercury News reporter walked into a cluttered startup and nearly missed the signal that would define one of the ...

Steve Jobs sold his Volkswagen to raise $1,300 for Apple’s first computer. He became a millionaire just two years later at 23

Steve Jobs sold his car to raise enough money to build Apple’s first computer. Just one year later, the tech titan reeled in ...
Fast Company

How Apple became Apple: The definitive oral history of the company’s earliest days

Before there was an iPod, an iPhone, an iPad, or an Apple Watch—before there was a Macintosh or Apple II or even an Apple-1—there were a couple of kids who came of age in Silicon Valley in the late ...
The Daily Gazette

Early Apple computer sells for $905G

NEW YORK (AP) — A vintage Apple computer that was one of only 50 made in Steve Jobs’ garage in 1976 sold for $905,000 at auction on Wednesday, far exceeding pre-sale estimates and outdoing a previous ...
Atlanta Daily World

Apple at 50: eight technology leaps that changed our world

Nick Dalton, Northumbria University, Newcastle In the early 1970s, the idea of an ordinary person owning a computer sounded ...
Wired

Steve Jobs’ Early Apple Items Are Going Up for Auction—Along With His Bow Ties

Some of the objects came from Steve Jobs’ childhood bedroom. They’re being made available by his stepbrother, John Chovanec. In 1990, John Chovanec’s mother married Steve Jobs’ father, Paul. Chovanec ...

One of Apple’s First Employees Looks Back at 50 Years

In 1976, 14-year-old Chris Espinosa rode a moped to his job demonstrating computers made in Steve Jobs’s childhood home. The ...