Apple I art print

Art Images Richards Mark Apple 1 500Px Artworkimage

In celebration of this week's anniversary of the founding of Apple Computer, 20x200 issued this fabulous limited edition print depicting the original Apple 1 computer. The photo, by Mark Richards, comes from the fantastic book Core Memory: A Visual Survey of Vintage Computers featuring Richards's images and John Alderman's text. As with all 20x200 prints, there are 200 available for $20 with limited numbers of larger sizes costing more. Also available is Richards's portrait of IBM 360 Model 30 Tape Drives. Apple I print

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Jordan

This is pretty cool, but I think the composition isn’t great. It looks like an awkward crop. The IBM 360 Model 30 Tape Drives print, on the other hand, looks superb.
ROSSINDETROIT

There’s that Z80 again. I just put my 1976 Cromemco S-100 Z80 computer on the block. I think it has an old clone of the Apple operating system in it. It came with a pair of EPROMS with ZAPPLE hand lettered on them. Man, those were the days.
You kids get off my lawn.
nigelfootpowder

Yeah, I wonder why it’s so tight, it would be nice to get just maybe an extra inch on each side. It has the feeling that it’s excluding something. But I do like how the terminal at the top left snugs right up to the border.
nixiebunny

@4: That’s a 6502, thank you very much.

I like the old HP power transformer (made by Paeco, perhaps). Since Woz worked at HP, he might have scrounged it from a junk pile there. The big rheostat is another nice touch. Gives it that warm tube sound.
Anonymous

Can somebody remind me why the founding of Apple is a thing to celebrate? All of their products have been highly proprietary, often designed to resist upgrading or interchangeability of parts.
ROSSINDETROIT

@6: Are you sure? My KIM-1 and OSI Superboard II used 6502 and they were black. I have a Z80 HERE and it’s silver/white.

My memory may be faulty. I haven’t seen the insides of an original Apple in over 30 years.
zeroy

The components are mounted on a wooden board. So, I don’t think the photographer had the option to rearrange them.
Jordan

By composition I didn’t mean how the elements are arranged, but rather how the photographer chose to frame them.