Hopefully, all Apple-1 owners are now encouraged to contact the Apple-1 Registry. Of the 29 known Apple-1s with serial numbers, the Achim Baqué the curator is in contact with 21 owners. Many owners of an original Apple-1 can be happy not only to own one of the rarest and most valuable computers in the world. It is Steve Jobs' handwriting!Īfter 45 years it could be clarified that it is a further legacy of Steve Jobs. In addition, PSA received images of all handwritten numbers from Apple-1 computers and further handwriting samples. Two original Apple-1s were personally transported from Germany to Los Angeles (USA) for examination in November 2021 and remained there until January 2022. PSA is one of the most renowned companies for sports card evaluation and forensic handwriting comparisons. It requires a forensic expert opinion as evidence.Įnd of 2021 Achim Baqué asked PSA in Santa Ana (California, USA) to do two forensic examinations of the serial numbers. Such assumptions must be treated with great caution. Steve Jobs' letters and signatures always achieve record results at auctions. Daniel owns some postcards and letters from Steve Jobs from the 70s. Step 3: Create a New Calculated Column: MonthSort RANKX (MonthYearTable,MonthYearTable Month-year-alt,ASC) Step 4: Select your first Column: Month-year and go to Modeling-Sort by Column and choose MonthSort. During one of the visits to Daniel Kottke, Achim Baqué asked for writing samples of Daniel and Steve Jobs. Step 2: Change the Data Type to Month-year-alt to Date. Handwriting samples of Steve Wozniak, employees of the first Byte Shop and others showed even a layman that they had not written the numbers. The Apple-1 Registry is a listing of all known Apple-1 computers. Achim Baqué is the curator of the Apple-1 Registry, an avid collector of vintage computers and owns several Apple-1 computers. Since 2015, Achim Baqué wanted to solve the mystery and find the originator of the handwriting.
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The majority of the first series Apple-1s were sold to the Byte Shop. About 80 of the 1 st batch have the handwritten serial number on the back. Only 200 Apple-1 computers were produced in two batches of 100. The Apple-1 is the most valuable microcomputer in the world. 16, 2022 - PRLog - The handwritten numbers on the back of some Apple-1 computers, apparently representing a serial number, were the biggest unsolved mystery surrounding Apple's first computer. Authenticity60 EUSKIRCHEN, Germany - Feb.