In order to make a complete system, HNF staff also dug up a period-correct keyboard as well as a slightly newer Apple monitor that could display the 60 Hz composite video output. This began with taking it out of its bullet-proof display case and bringing it upstairs to the museum’s workshop.
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In the four-part video series embedded below, explains the history of Apple’s first product and the steps he took to bring it back to life. In fact, it was unknown whether it would even work, and with it being the most valuable exhibit in the entire museum, simply firing it up would be a seriously risky project.īut computers are meant to be used, so museum director decided to take the plunge and attempt to get the classic Apple to run again. Although it has been there since 1996, it was always on static display and had never been powered on.
The Heinz Nixdorf Museumsforum (HNF), a computer museum in the German city of Paderborn, is fortunate enough to have an original Apple I in its collection. With about 60 original ones known to exist today, prices at auction are commonly in the $300,000 range, while confirmed working ones are even more valuable. Designed and marketed in 1976 by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs, it was the very first product released by what would become today’s multi-trillion-dollar manufacturer of iPhones and iMacs.
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