Apple-1 Replicas Receive International Acclaim

This week, something truly magical happened…

A few weeks ago, after I had finished the painstaking project of recreating the Apple-1 manuals from scratch, I contacted bloggers, YouTubers and staff writers of online and offline magazines to see if anybody would be interested in that crazy story. I did not really expect much feedback to be honest and was gobsmacked by the positive responses I got! 9to5mac ran the story, so did Mac|Life (in their August issue) and a few other websites. David Murray, better known as "The 8-Bit Guy" mentioned the manuals in his latest video about building an Apple-1 replica.

Among the people I wrote to about the manuals had been the curator of the cryptography section of the Deutsches Museum, which is the world's largest museum of science and technology. It felt a bit naive to expect them to include the manual in their exhibition but that did not prevent me from sending them a few sets after they had indicated that they find the project interesting enough to include the manuals in their inventory i.e. in some hidden corner in the vaults of the museum where they store everything that is not shown publicly.

But this Monday, I sent an email to inform me that the manuals have been added to the microelectronic exhibition. I was totally over the moon. The world's largest museum cared enough to make a little space for my project. I mean: It can not possibly get better than this, can it?

Of course, the very next morning I jumped on my bike and cycled to the museum to see it in person. I just had been to the museum a few weeks before with two of my nephews, so I knew exactly where to go. I do not feel ashamed admitting that my heart rate increased on my last meters to the showcase. Follow me on my way through the museum…