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Steve Wozniak is 75 years and 1 day old.
The Apple 1 was very much an exercise in the marrying of a low cost display terminal (using shift registers for memory), with a very minimal 6502 implementation, with enough memory to actually be able to write simple programs. This was very important. Keep in mind, at the time, that most computer systems consisted at the very least of the computer, and some form of terminal, be it teletype or glass, and those systems were very expensive once you got enough of something to build a system (e.g. an Altair 8800, with a 4K RAM board would easily cost you $900, and you still did not have a terminal for it, or the associated I/O card to provide the serial port, where e.g. an ADM-3A was ANOTHER $900, and you still needed to buy the serial card for $300, well, guess what? You were now roughly $2100 in.), you would have spent one hell of a chunk of money just doing so. This is why systems like the Apple 1, the TRS-80, and the Commodore PET were so revolutionary, they slashed the cost of implementing an interactive computing environment by a factor of 10. The Apple 1 didn't have much in the way of expandability, but with the cassette interface, it was good enough to write simple programs and to provide one of several very concrete examples of what a low cost computing system would be, and what could be done with it.
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