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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