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    Volumes

    1. Vol 1 Apple-1 — Volume 1 — The Computer That Started Apple A bare green circuit board sold for $666.66 in the summer of 1976, the two young men who made it, the two hundred or so that were built, and why the survivors now sell for more than a house — the orientation volume for the twelve-part series
    2. Vol 2 Apple-1 — Volume 2 — Steve Wozniak — From Blue Boxes to the Homebrew Computer Club A Lockheed engineer's son who designed computers on paper for a decade before he could afford to build one, built illegal telephone tone generators with Steve Jobs, designed calculators at Hewlett-Packard, cut chips out of an Atari game in four nights, and walked into a garage in Menlo Park in March 1975
    3. Vol 3 Apple-1 — Volume 3 — The Board — 6502, the 6820 PIA, a Video Terminal and 4K of DRAM The Apple-1 chip by chip, from the crystal that times everything to the four regulators that power it
    4. Vol 4 Apple-1 — Volume 4 — The Byte Shop Order and the Birth of Apple Computer, 1976–77 A calculator and a Volkswagen sold for circuit boards, a three-man partnership that lasted twelve days in its first form, a shop owner who wanted fifty finished computers and got fifty bare boards, thirty days' credit, a price of $666.66, and the year in which the Apple-1 made a company and was then left behind
    5. Vol 5 Apple-1 — Volume 5 — The Woz Monitor, Integer BASIC and the Cassette Interface Two hundred and fifty-six bytes of monitor, a 4K BASIC written by hand, and a two-inch card that stored programs as tones on an ordinary cassette — the Apple-1's software, how it worked and how owners used it
    6. Vol 6 Apple-1 — Volume 6 — Owners and Survivors — The Registry, the Two Hundred Boards and Where They Are Who bought an Apple-1 in 1976 and 1977, what they did with it, how most of the boards disappeared, how a few dozen survived in closets, classrooms and garages, and how an American engineer and a German repairer came to keep the census of every known board
    7. Vol 7 Apple-1 — Volume 7 — Value, Auctions and Authenticity — Telling an Original from a Replica Fifty years of Apple-1 prices, from $666.66 new to $14,000 in 2000 and $2.75 million in 2026; what makes one board worth three times another; the disputes over prototypes; and how specialists tell a board made in 1976 from an exact modern copy built with 1976 chips
    8. Vol 8 Apple-1 — Volume 8 — Caring for an Original — Storage, Handling, Inspection and the Question of Power What museums, conservators and the people who restore Apple-1s say about keeping a 1976 board alive — and why switching it on is the last step, not the first
    9. Vol 9 Apple-1 — Volume 9 — The Replicas — Re-Making the Apple-1 From Vince Briel's Replica 1 to board-for-board reproductions stuffed with 1970s chips: who has re-made the Apple-1, how close each comes to the machine of 1976, and what can actually be bought in October 2026
    10. Vol 10 Apple-1 — Volume 10 — Building an Apple-1 Replica The Replica 1 Plus from bare board to backslash, one stage and one test at a time — and the longer road of a board-for-board reproduction filled with 1976 chips
    11. Vol 11 Apple-1 — Volume 11 — Programming the Apple-1 — Monitor, BASIC and 6502 Assembly Hand-assembled 6502 code typed into the Woz Monitor in hex — a message, hex and decimal arithmetic, the sieve of Eratosthenes, the keyboard and the screen driven directly — every program run in the series' simulator with its output shown; and Apple BASIC as the 1976 manual documents it
    12. Vol 12 Apple-1 — Volume 12 — My Family's Apple-1 An original Apple-1 bought by my family in the 1970s, the machine I learned BASIC and assembly on, and the garage where it still sits among my father's Apple-1s and Apple IIs — with what an Apple-1 cost a family then, how one was bought, and how a home machine of 1976–77 was set up and learned on