In the US as I type, it is February 15, the day World Computer Day is celebrated, and at 8.30AM ET, a second event started, gathering those attending live and on-demand afterwards to celebrate World Computer Day 2022, and to share enthusiasm about the prior Venture Cafe Thursday event hosted by University City Science Center, with that first three hour event embedded below in full!
World Computer Day 2022’s theme is MOS Technologies and the 6502 Chip; the chip that changed the world, and it’s also the day that some original Apple I computers newly double in value.
World Computer Day is sponsored by The Compuseum, founded by Jim Scherrer, who is hosting World Computer Day events, which you’ll see in the video embedded below.
But first, MOS Technologies was a silicon chip manufacturer, based in Valley Forge, PA, and with the 6502, it created a chip at low price and high power, and enticed Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs and many other founders and companies to build their empires around it.
Computers that used the 6502 include the original Apple 1, the Apple II family, the Commodore 64, the Atari 2600, Atari 8-bit family, Nintendo Entertainment System, Atari Lynx, BBC Micro, Kim-1, AIM-65 and other.
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The 6502 is still sold today to enthusiasts – and for use in industrial and retail scenarios, as Bill Mensch, one of the 6502’s co-creators, explains in the video below, in what is a must-watch event.
The event saw 13 specialists in computing and the 6502 chip gave lectures and celebrations of the chip that changed the world and brought to us all the personal computing revolution in those Apple, Atari and Commodore PC’s, among all the other brands listed above, including the game-changing original Nintendo games console.
So, what about that news of certain original Apple I have now had their handwritten serial numbers authenticated as having been written by Steve Jobs himself, likely doubling their value, or more?
Please see the must-watch video above!
Now comes the news that Steve Jobs wrote serial numbers on the Apple-1 computers from the Apple-1 Registry https://www.Apple1Registry.com/en/serial.html
The handwritten numbers on the back of some Apple-1 computers, apparently
representing a serial number, were the biggest unsolved mystery surrounding Apple’s first computer.
At first 100, and
a short time later another 100 Apple-1s were produced and perhaps around 80 still exist.
This serial number can be
found on some Apple-1s from the first batch.
The Apple-1 is the rarest and the most valuable microcomputer in the world.
Achim Baqué, who maintains the
Apple-1 Registry (a listing of all Apple-1 computers) has spent several years researching and collecting handwriting
samples.
Two forensic examinations in the USA using original Apple-1s have now confirmed that Steve Jobs actually
wrote the serial number on the first Apple-1. The mystery is solved after 45 years. It is another legacy of Steve Jobs.
Full details here, published by Achim Baqué, curator of the Apple-1 Registry: https://www.Apple1Registry.com/en/serial.html
Further information
https://www.Apple1Registry.com
contact@apple1registry.com
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