Wozniak's 1977 Byte article
My dad bought our first computer in a bike shop in Raleigh way back in 1978. He bought it in a bike shop, in the back, in the computer hobbyist section. Right alongside the LED-encrusted dinosaur now known as the Altair. I remember playing a crazy (probably unlicensed) "Star Wars" game using paddles. It was impossible to win, but played the theme song at the beginning of the game, and it was written using Integer BASIC. So browsing my bookmarks I happened upon this 1977 article by none other than Steve Wozniak on the internals of the Apple ][. I have to smile when one of my students tells me he hates Macs because you can't build one. Yet Apple was co-founded by a man who opens the article with a simple motto: "To me, a personal computer should be small, reliable, convenient to use and inexpensive." And the company was born from a homebrew computer club. Wonder how much this issue of Byte would go for on ebay?