On there, you will find autographed merchandise items like mugs, t-shirts, hoodies, and other cool stuff created by the Hackers legend John "Captain Crunch" Draper. Be the first in your neighborhood to sport these items. Please share this with all of your friends.

www.cafepress.com/crunchman

Currently, there are estimated to only be six working models of the original Apple 1 left, and one of them is going up for auction in Germany on May 25th. Computerworld reports that it was originally purchased by one Fred Hatfield, who also received a letter signed by Steve Jobs offering an upgrade from the $666.66 Apple-1 to an Apple II 4K motherboard for another $400. According to Mike Willegal, who has tracked down many Apple 1 computers, this particular one had an interface for a selectric printer grafted onto it. Willegal also says that the reason for Jobs' letter was that the original owner "complained to Apple about limited software availability."

The auction price for the computer is expected to land somewhere between $250,000 and $400,000 when it's sold off — though strangely it apparently didn't sell last year when it was put up for auction by the same company. We've seen a few Apple 1 computers sold at auction recently, with one sold in June of 2012 fetching $374,500 and another this past December for $640,000.

Although this latest Apple 1 isn't likely to hit those heights, it still has plenty going for it — it's signed by Steve Wozniak, who built the motherboard by hand. Most importantly, it's in complete working order, as the video posted by the auctioneer proves. The video shows the usual command line on the screen, as you'd expect, but also displays an ASCII-art image of Woz and Jobs printed across the screen.

 In late 1983, people began seeing odd commercials on TV, commercials which promised a new kind of computer. One that promised (borrowing from the Orwell novel) 1984 won't be like Nineteen Eighty-Four."

Happy Birthday Macintosh!

I have a channel at youtube.com featuring vintage Apple II and Macintosh footage. Rare Apple commercials, interviews and funny takes from the 1 bit world. Not only Apple and Mac related you find also video rewiews of the coolest handheld and tabletop arcade games of the 1970´s and 80´s. Please visit, share and subscribe to my channel at

www.youtube.com/user/myoldmac

myoldmac.net presents: 68K Finder

Commemorating the 28´th Anniversary of the Macintosh on January 24, 2012, myoldmac.net is proud to present the first vintage Macintosh Locator App for mobile phones: 68K Finder

Please open www.myoldmac.net/mobile/
with your mobile device, then tap “Add to Bookmarks” for easy, one-tap access. This is version 1.0 - launched January 24, 2012, please report any bugs.

What the hack is a web-app ?

The web-app resides on server and is accessed via the Internet. It performs specified tasks - potentially all the same ones as a native application - for the mobile user, usually by downloading part of the application to the device for local processing each time it is used. The software is written as Web pages in HTML and CSS, with the interactive parts in Java. This means that the same application can be used by most mobile devices that can surf the Web (regardless of the brand of phone).

Main 68K Finder Features

• Displays 68K Macintosh collectibles on the US eBay market
• Currency converter (updated several times on trade days)
• Vintage Macintosh serial number decoder
• Actual 68K Macintosh News (updates when loading the web-app)
• Hidden Easter Egg (s)

Please promote 68K Finder on your favorite blog or forum. Here is a press kit including images and text zip file

Bicycles for our Minds: Memorable Demos, Quotes and Speeches of Steve Jobs

Page of memorable demos and presentations Jobs has given, including the introduction of the original Macintosh, MacWorld keynotes, interviews and excerpts from his very moving speech at Stanford University in 2005.

Worth a viewing: Cult Of Mac

There are lots of great Apple II and Macintosh collectibles out on ebay. If you are looking for a specific Mac or a special Apple card - these are the days! Find vintage Apple II Computer and Macintosh Computer. Please use the model selectors on top of the pages to get better search results.

Steven P. Jobs passed away on October 5th, 2011 after a long struggle with pancreatic cancer. He was just 56 years old. We mourn his passing, and wish his family the very best. The Apple chairman and former CEO who made personal computers, smartphones, tablets, and digital animation mass-market products passed away today. We're going to miss him. Deeply, and personally.

In 1976 he started Apple in a garage. Together with Steve Wozniak, he shipped the first true fully-built personal computer, the Apple I. He drove development of the Mac, understanding that it was the future of computers. The great thing that we would all see.

Prior to Steve Jobs, computers were alien to most of us. They were accessible to few people without an engineering degree. Not merely because of their complex operating procedures, but also because they were so cold and so inhuman. Jobs understood that they could be something more than that. That while computers would never be people, he could endow them with humanity. He could transform them into machines that not only anyone could use, but that everyday people would enjoy using thanks to the art of great design. He made them something that would be part of our lives. And he did that again and again.

He changed the way movies are made, the way music is sold, the way stories are told, the very way we interact with the world around us. He helped us work, and gave us new ways to play. He was a myth made man. Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being. Steve leaves behind a company that only he could build, and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple.

The Apple 1 Registry

Apple 1's were built in batches and each batch had a slightly different mix of components.  This is an attempt to catalog known Apple 1s and provide as much detail as possible about each one.  The earliest known owner,  will be used as the base identifier.