(16 Jul 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
New York – 15 July 2024
1. Tilt, exhibit title on floor to display of Apple-1 personal computer from the desk of Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple
2. Tight, Apple-1 computer, estimated value $500,000-800,000 USD
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Devang Thakkar, former Microsoft computer scientist, Global Head of Ventures at Christie’s:
“Apple-1 is the first Apple that Steve Wozniak actually imagined and soldered together on a motherboard. Apple one was only a motherboard. There was nothing else that came with it. All the other peripherals, whether it’s the monitor, the keyboard, they were all off the shelf components assembled by Apple, but the computer alone was just the motherboard.”
4. Tight, Apple-1 computer
5. Tight, Apple-1 motherboard created by Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Devang Thakkar, former Microsoft computer scientist, Global Head of Ventures at Christie’s:
“My first computer, which was much later than this Apple had 200 transistors. The phone in your pocket has around 15 billion transistors. So that’s the evolution of computing that we’ve seen in the last 50 years. This one had just four kilobytes of RAM.”
7. Close, Apple-1 motherboard circuits
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Devang Thakkar, former Microsoft computer scientist, Global Head of Ventures at Christie’s:
“And what it could do was very basic. It could run a program. It could run Basic (programming). If you had an extra RAM attached to it and it could run a few, few, interesting like commands that you can play with it. You can’t run today’s games on it or even Word or Excel. It’s a very, very simple, basic computer. But it was the first time the computer was personal, was not the size of a room, but it was something you could put on your desk.”
9. Pan from monitor, keyboard to motherboard
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Devang Thakkar, former Microsoft computer scientist, Global Head of Ventures at Christie’s:
“There were frustrations with this. It took ten minutes to boot up in the first place. When you just boot your computer today, imagine waiting for ten minutes to start your computer. It’s instantaneous, sometimes within seconds. So there was a lot of actions that needed to happen for a full computer. Like you have to start your monitor, you have to start your keyboard. Then all the things come together. And it was a pretty slow serialized process.”
11. Wide, Gen-One exhibit
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Devang Thakkar, former Microsoft computer scientist, Global Head of Ventures at Christie’s:
“For me, as a computer scientist, this is my era’s DaVinci. Because DaVinci only had a limited number of paintings, there is only one of these. There is no other comparable to this. Period.”
13. Various, Altair 8800 computer that inspired Microsoft’s Paul Allen to co-found company with Bill Gates
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Devang Thakkar, former Microsoft computer scientist, Global Head of Ventures at Christie’s:
“And this is the machine that inspired the creation of Microsoft. So this Altair machine is what led Mr. Allen and Mr. Gates to start the company in the first place.”
15. Various, Altair 8800 computer
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Devang Thakkar, former Microsoft computer scientist, Global Head of Ventures at Christie’s:
“Both of these groups were independently developing computing, one up in Seattle, one in Palo Alto. And they both see the graphical user interface and are inspired by it. That led to the creative creation of Macintosh and Apple, as well as the Windows operating system and Microsoft’s.”
19. Wide, Alto
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