Apple-1 Replica

"Insanely great!"

The world's most accurate replica of the very first home computer ever created.

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Meet the Replica

Apple-1 Replica | Fully working

A world's first: This fully working Apple-1 replica board has been wave soldered and features hard gold plated fingers. Only original ICs have been used for an authentic look!

Apple-1 Manual Replica Set

The manual that shipped with every Apple-1 back in 1976 now available in a never seen before recreation. The 18pp manual Includes the fold-out schematics, too!

Apple-1 PCB Replica

Apple-1 PCB replica

Apple-1 replica PCB board with hard gold plated expansion port. This finish is way superior to the ENIG finished board (also available) and more truthfully mimics the original board from 1976.


Making of…

Learn more about the painstaking process of recreating the Apple-1 manuals from scratch. The process involved not only identifying all typefaces used: For the reprints to be as true to the original as humanly possible, the position of each individual character had to be accurate to the fraction of a millimeter. In other words: Every single letter had to be  positioned manually.


Watch the video to get a feeling of the work involved in this totally crazy project…



What the media says

Logo retroplace

“The manuals might even look better than the originals from 1976. A real feast for the eyes…"

Mac|Life

“Not a copy, but a meticulous remake. They even re-created the original Byte Shop logo stamp.”

wccftech

“Creating the precision level to the extreme requires hardwood and dedication. "

9to5Mac

Obsessive Apple fan

creates perfect reproductions

of Apple I manuals.


Latest Blog Posts

Apple-1 Manuals & Bill of Materials
By Armin Hierstetter 12 Nov, 2022
Here, you can download scans of the original manuals of the Apple-1. Click here for the Apple-1 Operation Manual. Click here for the Apple-1 Cassette Interface Manual. Click here for the Preliminary Basic User's Manual. Looking for our highly acclaimed replicas of the manuals? See our shop and get your high-quality printed recplica! Want to build your very own Apple-1 Replica? You can download a "Bill of Materials" here .
By Armin Hierstetter 13 Oct, 2022
On March 17th, 2022, the hammer fell at 42,660 USD for an allegedly original Apple-1 Operation Manual from 1976. Half a year later, the story takes a spectacular turn. Did the buyer purchase a reprint from the 80ies?
By Armin Hierstetter 20 Aug, 2021
How Byte Shop owner Paul Terrell sparked the founding of Apple.
By Armin Hierstetter 11 Aug, 2021
Museums worldwide add the Apple-1 manual replicas to their collections: It all started with The Deutsches Museum in Munich…
By Armin Hierstetter 09 Aug, 2021
Out of the 250 Apple-1 believed to have been produced, around 100 still exist. Even less copies of the original manuals have survived. Now they have been re-created with insane precision. This is the story of the recreation of the Apple-1 manuals.
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