The first news article ever written about Apple

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56 points·shawndumas··11 comments

Side note. Does anyone else think that the original author (photo in article) seems to have stayed the sane age for 30 years, and even looks younger now than in 1977?

Funny, I didn't see your comment, read the article and thought the same thing. She looks a lot younger now. Maybe it is just the advances in cameras that makes her appearance that much better. If that's the case I can stop going to the gym now because I don't have anything to worry about in 30 years.

Lol at the headline "Why so many computer languages?" Some things certainly haven't changed.

The issue is available online, if you want to read it: https://archive.org/stream/kilobaudmagazine-1977-02/Kilobaud...

The article list reads like what Hacker News would have been in 1977.

Why so many computer languages?

The hobbyists operating system

The 8080 you may have missed

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Quote from the KiloBaud article:

"What You Get for $666.66" heh ... really Steve? ... :-)

Blame Wozniak.

According to his autobiography, he was unaware the numbers even meant anything, he just liked them.

and today we use more processing power in our phones than likely all the early Apple computers put together.

What is most telling was Steve's focus on the user and the idea that the hardware underneath doesn't matter but the experience the user has should be consistent

Don't forget you will need a keyboard, screen, AAAND "two transformers"!

Well, Jobs said he intended to have a newly designed single transformer out sometime soon (rolls eyes).

I love the part about how if the keyboard you've scrounged up uses the wrong logic convention, you can just solder a 7404 on the board in the spot provided.

Truly a different era.

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