The Original iPhone - More Retro Than You Might Think #Helpful Post

so as you may have heard this week marks

the tenth anniversary of the icon but

what you may not know is the story of

the iPhone actually dates back all the

way to 1977

oh is this monthly 10th anniversary of

the iPhone it is actually the 40th

anniversary of the Apple to which I have

right here in this bag now I've never

seen one in person so I'm a little

excited to check this out and fun fact

the tech inside this was mostly designed

by Steve Wozniak but in classic Steve

Jobs form he actually took the spotlight

and debuted in 1977 at West Coast

computer fair and yes Apple did build

and sell the original Apple one a year

prior but really this was the first

Apple product geared for the masses now

unfortunately this sweet leather bag was

sold separately back in the day but that

shows you Apple would still milk and

people for leather accessories from the

beginning of time now what I notice

immediately is this Apple over here on

the bag is fully intact there's no bite

out of it from what I understand Apple

actually added that bite so people would

not confuse this with a cherry or tomato

let's crack into this bag got to be

careful this is a vintage piece of tech

hey that's me

this is the Apple 2 man this is much

much different than computers we see

today and again I've never seen one of

these in person so this is really

legitimately my first experience with

this ah

so unlike Apple products today Apple

actually wanted this to be really

accessible to the users you can upgrade

parts you can add I oh not like anything

we see today with Apple where they

charge you millions of dollars for Ram

never reference to us how far things

have come today this had a 1 megahertz

processor one freaking megahertz and for

contrast you need about 2000 of these to

equate to the computing power inside

most phones today now something

interesting with the Apple 2 is there

was no floppy disk drive on this machine

so the way you access data or really did

pretty much anything was through add-on

peripherals like this guy here you can

see we have a whole slew of additional

ports and Lane

kind of similar to height at a video

card or a PCIe SSD to a modern computer

today but the attention to detail on

this is kind of crazy what immediately

stands out to me is the Apple Computer

logo right smack in the middle and I'm

willing to bet that this was more than

likely intentional because of how OCD

Steve Jobs was on the Left we have the

power supply followed by the speaker

below that I'm going to pop the top back

on top it over to the keyboard I'm

actually not sure why there is a bell

text on the G key either bail from a

quick Google result the Bell key was

actually activated by typing ctrl G

that's a holdover from old typewriters

and teletype machines that actually had

a little metal bail in them moving on to

the keyboard this has some nice clicky

tactile response very similar to a

mechanical keyboard in addition to the

Bell key there's also a repped key which

I would assume means repeat but also

unlike any computer keyboard we see

today that's crazy there's like the @

symbol on the P so it's a shift at P TLD

today now buddy Thoreau we actually used

to have a disk drive that we thought

would be a great idea to turn into an

SSD throw it in dream best 3 and then

give it away but that left us without an

option for the Apple 2 but not to worry

we have the Apple 2 see here which does

have a floppy reader built-in and will

allow us to play the glorious Oregon

Trail you may be a banker from Boston be

a carpenter from Ohio immediately my

mind goes to basketball Celtics or

Cavaliers I don't think I want any of

those be a farmer from Illinois

that's the bull and its mascot in the

engine I don't even know it forwards I

selected 3 what is the first name of the

wagon leader often

Ekans rich Terry Crews Kanye

wet so you're going to organ I can fix

you up with what you need many sell me

drugs

I charge $40 a yoke that was expensive

eggs right there now loading the wagon

you see those sweet color graphics

that's actually a fun fact the Apple 2

was able to output color graphics so

that's actually why Apple did the

colored Apple logo it was a way to

market that hey this machine can output

color s for shoot nope B for blast D for

dead shift I did not buy any ammo Terry

Crews no Kanye was house of fever

cutting as Doug rich is back keep your

did you did Terry Crews should die oh

that's everybody right here live off it

well that's the darkest organ trail game

I've ever played

now from there let's fast forward from

1977 to 2007 this is what a popular

smartphone looked like before the iPhone

shut up - the sidekick we think back and

what people assume the iPhone was going

to be I think they really just pictured

an iPod with a foam built in which would

have been terrible luckily though we got

this but over the past 10 years has

transformed into this now hopping back

to the Apple 2 besides the sweet retro

color paint job how is this iPhone and

the Apple 2 - very different looking

machines the same really what I think

you have to ask yourself is what was

Apple trying to do with these products

when the Apple 2 first came out it was

also referred to as an appliance

computer just like those things in your

kitchen Steve Jobs really wanted people

to associate the Apple tube just like

they would a blender or a toaster not in

the way that it would make you food but

more so that it was intuitive and would

make your life easier flash back to

before the Apple - this was the

modern-day home computer which had crazy

switches in life honestly it really

didn't look too invited I think that was

the purpose and why the Apple 2 looks

the way it does it was meant to be

simple and something that you wanted to

use naturally nothing back to the iPhone

from its beginning stage iOS was so

simple a baby could use it

so really when you look back at the

Apple products over the years it's kind

of always led to this the simple

appliance computer that is meant to make

your life easier

so basically what jobs and Wozniak

dreamed about all the way back in 1977

has evolved into what you may be

watching this video on today