In 1975 two guys - Steven Wozniak and Steven Jobs - joined together in Crist Drive, Los Altos, California in the Garage of Steven Jobs
 parents. In the last months of 1975 and the first months of 1976 Steven Wozniak developed with several attempts ( first attempt was a
 single board Computer based on 6500 or Z80 ) then the later version of the first singleboard computer ( based on 6502 or 6800 ) to launch
 as the later recommended Apple-1 computer.

  When the development was completed they first started trying to get a dealer in Silicon Valley. After introducing the Mainboard at the
  Byte Shop  in Mountain View, California to the owner Paul Terrell and trying to sell the computer as a do-it-yourself-kit he refused this
  offer and told them, that the mainboard must be at least soldered together and a proof of working condition must be made before he
  could offer to sell that computer.

  Both Geeks had to return home to the garage and think about how to manage that task and decided to pick up some friends to start a
  kind of production of that boards and then returned back to Terell after few weeks and then offering the soldered boards to him again.

 After confirming to him that the boards would be delivered as finished ( soldered ) boards he agreed and put the first time the board into
 the window of the shop.

 While soldering and assembling the boards Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs went by invitation of Stan Viet ( owner of the Computer Mart
 in New York ) in April 1976 to the the first Atlantic City Personal Computer Festival in his double sized booth.
 

	Steven Jobs and Daniel Kottke ( one of the first employees at Apple ) at the fair

   There they presented the Apple-1 first time after Stan Viet had already presented the Apple-1 he had bought in a show before.
   He had built his own Apple-1 inside a attache case ( so you might call that the very first Laptop ever ! ) and a small 9 inch monitor (!) 
   and he took away the visitors from the Altair show, who had still a huge bunch and load of equipment along with them. This might be
   called the birthdate of the personal computer in the public.....

  

   In the years of 1976 and early 1977 both - Steven Jobs and Steven Wozniak sold all together 250 of the Apple-1 computers.
   While the first 100 computerboards had been made by a small PCB company that first "run" of the boards are nowadays called the
   "preNTI" version of the Apple-1.  The later second "run" of the PCB´s ( 150 boards ) had been made by a larger PCB-company ( NTI )
   who inserted their logo ( a square diamond with the Letter NTI inside of that square ) below the company logo of Apple Computer.
   The computers out of that run are nowadays referred to be the "NTI-version" of the Apple-1.

	the "pre NTI-version"		the "NTI-version"

   In fact there are several minor other differences between both versions of the Apple-1 - in main restricted to the kind of population of the
   components on the mainboard. The main differences between both versions are listed here below:
 

	"pre-NTI" version of the Apple-1		"NTI"-version of the Apple-1
	ceramic CPU and PIA		plastic CPU and PIA
	ceramic disc decoupling capacitors		multilayer ceramic decoupling capacitors
	blue electrolytic capacitors		yellow electrolytic capacitors

   But in fact the PCB-boards themselves don´t vary from eachother besides of the NTI-Logo.

   One of the largest disabilities in the beginning of the launch of the Apple-1 was the fast that the computer was distributed only with a
   monitor in prom and no basic along with the computer. So in the beginning the programs had to be written in machine code instructions.
   This was also at the beginning a point mentioned by Paul Terrell at the Byte Shop. So after a very short period Steven Wozniak 
   introduced the Apple-1 with his own Basic to be loaded from Cassette and the Apple-1 Cassette Interface ( lated just called ACI ) into the
   computer.

   While selling the Apple-1 by the Byte Shop and later also by advertisements in computer magazines
 

   Steven Jobs was traveling around to raise funds for the Company foundation and searching for dealers and in the meantime Steven
   Wozniak started the development of the Apple II and that model was introduced in early 1978 to the public. In the beginning of 1977 the
   Apple Computer changed it´s form and founded as Apple Computer Inc. and was introduced to the stock exchange market.

   So that´s a brief overview of the foundation and the early days of the Apple Computer Company.

   In the meantime the days have past that far away, that a Apple-1 Owners Club has been created at the applefritter.com site
   and at the site from Mike Willegal there is kept track on the confirmed to be known as original boards of the Apple-1.

   The last sell of an original Apple-1 board at Sotheby´s in 2012 raised up to the amount of 374.500,00 U.S. Dollars.